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[–] leweb 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

This is how the Idiocracy happens. I wish I could have better news for you, but without massive intervention by enlightened people, nature only cares about reproduction. Not intelligence, not productivity, just passing genes as efficiently as possible. And every day it looks less likely that the intervention will happen.

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[–] SpeshulSnowflaek 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A bifurcation will happen. No joke, humans will "specialize" into different types.

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[–] ardvarcus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No joke, humans will "specialize" into different types.

All of us must ask ourselves, are we Eloi or Morlocks? That is to say, are we pretty but useless "consumers" who follow orders and know our place? Or are we intelligent workers carrying the entire civilization on our backs? Or maybe there's a third option H. G. Wells never imagined ...