A Woke Society? **Mod Warning In Post #435**

Men don't get held back as much by excessive numbers of children women do.Men aren't the ones who have to give birth to the children women are.

That's why I emphasized women in my posts, as all the data from around the world shows that they are much more negatively impacted by excessive birth rates and Women benefit much more from access to contraception and abortion than men do.

You just can't accept you have no argument and are just picking at things because you are unwilling to let go.

Yep, the rare occurrences of illnesses can often give the medical community insights into illnesses that were lacking. Reminded of the book Hidden Valley Road, 6 family members diagnosed with schizophrenia which gave the scientific community an insight into the genetic origins of it. Wasn't remotely a standard scenario but gave new opportunities and angles for research.

I'd put it better as a very small % of people and depending on the area possibly mostly men, but how is that a problem? Im a man and I dont control the world, it doesnt help me that some other men might be controlling the world, all one knows is the system tends to throw up the more intelligent and innovative into positions of power and influence, so let competition sort it out and hope the system rewards success and not failure.

This is absolute rubbish - most power and influence is inherited by birth and has little to do with talent (unless you subscribe to eugenic theory). The best way to become rich is to start out with a pile of money.

In such Scenario men come to dominate because historically men inherited all the wealth. We do not live in a meritocracy we live in a plutocracy.

If you are a successful parent you have the tools to create success kids, nothing wrong with that, its why people generally try to create the best families they can. I dont buy second part at all though, as an example, who created the IT revolution? more or less men, they created an industry where one didnt exist at all. That wasnt about inherited wealth per say as their sisters had similar opportunities if they wanted. You would have to argue that sex differences dont matter, when in fact they do, across the population of the planet.

People like Musk and Boaz both inherited their wealth. The fact that certain individuals such as Gates were geeks who invented essential tools doesn't invalidate the central premise that wealth and connections is how you make money.

No amount of good parenting is going to boost a child who's parents live on minimum wage into a position of wealth.

No.

they may have been given start up capital because their parents were well off, they still had to have good ideas and drive to push them through, the best a lazy trust fund kid can hope to do is get a lazy girl/boy job in some NGO. Look at the US, many immigrants have gone there in the 70's onwards and their kids are now successful. You just need good parents that instill a work ethic and basic rules for life, dont do crime, drugs, get pregnant as a teen,do get an education, work hard.....

We live in a hierarchy based society where merit and ability is big part of that, somebody that decides to become an engineer or doctor deserves to get rewarded for that effort over someone who's level is bar staff (no offense to bar staff). You were making women a big part of you argument but everyone is free study what they want based on their intelligence and desires. The blue haired gang that seem to complain the most from their easy girl/boy degrees, why arent they in Engineering or Medicine? it aint the "patriarchy" keeping them down?

Ive a grand uncle with 16 children. It was like a competition between himself and his friend who could father the most. His friend had 12. He is always bragging about it.

It never held either of them back. The multiple women they had the children with were all very busy and never had a career though.

And if you live in certain areas it is much more difficult to parent and get your kids to avoid drugs, crime, getting pregnant young, third level education etc.

Parenting in a working class project is 10 times harder than from a nice middle class suburbia.

Its like 2 people racing against each other in the 100 metres.

One has a 40 metre start, all the best training and the newest runners.

The other has second hand runners, very little training and starts 40 metres back in a 100 metre race.

Being told both people have the exact same opportunities is like advice from The Secret.

And then if you don't succeed, it's your own fault, your lazy, didn't work hard enough, we all live in a world that the American dream is available to everybody, what's wrong with you?