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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum. (lemm.ee)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”.

Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The "smart" people keep waiting and waiting. It's not being forced on them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Choice to have a baby ≠ choice to "be dumb"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Choice to not have baby = choice to let dumb people out-procreate smart people = more dumb people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

And, returning to the original question - How exactly is that treating individual intelligence as a choice and not a genetic trait?