Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (251430)	5/23/2008 5:17:48 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

The decline in marriage has impacted education, crime, drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, and every social ill imaginable. The truism is if you want to spend your life in poverty, don't get married when you are pregnant. But I wonder. Does marriage get the credit when it's due to other factors like native intelligence? Smart people do better in the world no matter what else is going on. We credit higher education with the rising difference in incomes. But is it due to the spread of intelligence? One hundred years ago you could be very smart and spent your life in a small town doing a nowhere job. Not any more. You get spotted in grammar and HS and get offered scholarships that let you get out of town. Or you get on the Net, find opportunities, and start the next MSFT. The higher test scores get the better colleges, and that's where the corporations recruit. Maybe it's just that smart people do well and dumb people don't.