America Runs On Geniuses And Burns Normies For Fuel

Are you surprised California beats Siberia?

It doesn't matter that the average American is a below-average loser by international standards. High IQ is the most valuable asset in the world and the world's high IQ people prefer the United States. You might call them godless heathens, degenerates, or cucks. That's fine. That's why they moved away from you. They are the reason why the dollar will not be replaced. The alternatives are worse. It doesn't matter that some countries might have better monetary policy, better legal systems, or a culture of civic duty. Resources make the world go 'round and brains are the main resource.

If the world's average IQ was 100, then there would be 8 million people with IQ 146 or higher (4th standard deviation). But the world's average IQ is much lower than 100. It's too politically sensitive a topic, so I'm just going to go with the 8 million figure. Economically speaking, these people are at the center of the global economy. Even if they are not in a high position, their existence serves as infrastructure so that high earning is possible. If we go with only those in the 5th standard deviation of IQ, then we're down to the very rare number of people with a 160+ IQ. I don't have a good number for them, but I seem to recall 1/60,000 is a good estimate. So that's more like 133,333 people on the planet with a 160+ IQ. Now here is my first argument. I've met more than 13 people in San Francisco with an IQ of 160 or higher. And I'm not talking these BS online tests, or even some Richard Lynn standardized test adjusted IQ, I'm talking WAIS-IV & Woodcock-Johnson IQ tests. Geniuses are common out here. There are more geniuses in my neighborhood than there are in some countries. My brother's baseball coach was the guy who invented Techron, the fuel additive. And those are only the people I met. You can call it anecdotal, but consilience is on my side. This doesn't even include the easy statistics, like the million plus engineers on visas here.

I know 4th standard deviation IQ (.1% of population) correlates very closely to the number of engineers in educated countries. The USA graduates close to .073% of the population as engineers, while Russia has .3%. Assuming only the smartest are educated in engineering, the US hardly has tapped into its genius population, while Russia had to look for slightly less intelligent but harder working people to be engineers. And when you get to that level, a 129 IQ engineer might do what a 144 IQ engineer does, but the 129 has to want it more. Has to focus more. And really, it's not all the smartest who become engineers, just the engineering minded. Engineering is so competitive here, people who would qualify in other countries can't hack it here at the college level. There are tons of problems with American engineering, I'm not claiming otherwise. But we have more smart people to draw from (as a ratio of actual graduates) which pushes the standards higher. I can correlate this with superior American engineering compared to Russian engineering. And while quantity has a quality all its own, if engineer creation was the only key to prosperity, then India would be prosperous.

Look to where people choose to migrate. Europe and the USA overwhelmingly. But Europe is going broke and we know that from their bond yields and the Euro's declining exchange rate since 2008. Europe also has this tendency to go through periods of actual genocide. Could you imagine if all the Europeans ganged up to kill all the Dutch? Sounds mad? That's exactly what they did to the Jews. And they love doing this kind of murder so much, large segments of their societies denied it even happened, even though the evidence is overwhelming. That says so much about the latent xenophobia hiding under Europe's tourist friendly streets. Those cobblestones have seen some blood! Even if most non-Europeans are unfamiliar with the Holocaust, they sense the xenophobia and latent murderous bureaucratic urge. Don't forget the 21st century German political slogan, “Kinder nicht Inder.” Why bring Indians into the discussion? Why juxtapose with children? Why bring it up when discussing economic policy? Or take Russia. Russia will never be a place where an Indian woman wants to move to start her career. Russians say 'good.' And I as an American say 'good' because she comes here and makes $180,000/year here instead of 10 million rubles/year there. Who wants to live in Russia? People don't emigrate to go there. That's an objective measure that Russia lacks wide appeal. 'Good' say the Russians. Well we're not talking about the 'holiness' of migrants, just whether they are treated well or not. Educated Indian women who have emigrated overwhelmingly have decided they are treated better in the US, compared to both India and Russia. She solves our math problems for us. Creates actuarial space so an investor just needs to show up with a bag of money. Compare that with Saudi Arabia. They have all those bags of money and nobody knows how to do anything there, built any assets, or works hard by an international standard. Furthermore, nobody went there to build something. The place isn't conducive for that. If they want a piece of that Indian's math skills, they have to buy some Berkshire Hathaway like everybody else. In fact, Saudi Arabia doesn't even have the technical ability to run its own oil industry. They're literally at the mercy of advanced countries that could just decide to invade and annihilate them.

Why in the world would an Indian woman pick Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, or South Africa over the USA? Why would a Jew? Why would a gay? The problem with conservative societies is they mistake American Clown World for American liberalism. American liberalism is what makes America appealing for all the 'weirdos' to live. And guess what? When someone has 30+ IQ points on you, you can't tell if they're crazy or brilliant. So when I hear some loser country's denizens denigrate the US without acknowledging that we bring the geniuses here, I know I'm hearing envy. When I hear countries that can't even build a microchip talking about how pathetic American values are, I have to laugh. I would never have heard their primitive opinions were it not for the internet that we built, or the supply chain we designed, or the banking that we used to finance their purchase of capital goods, etcetera etcetera. And instead of being executed by the state, a cool gay guy makes millions of dollars bringing resources to people who want to kill him. That is the genius of America that conservative societies cannot match.

These conservative societies are free-riding on America's technology. We're not so smart. We're just the best place to live and do business and autocratically minded people envy that. When the Ukraine war started, I saw at the gym in SF some fifty-something Russian couple wearing Z on their gym clothes. They were disgustedly sneering at some incredibly athletic twenty-something brown woman while she was minding her own business doing some monster work-out routine. And all the while, while the Russians were sneering at her, they were copying her every exercise. That's Russian mentality for you. Despise what they envy.

Clown world is the worship of these special Americans, by significantly less special Americans. The average American is lazy, ignorant, entitled, aggressive, and happy that way. They worship these outsiders, but they cannot tell the difference between a genius and a lunatic. And those who underestimate America can't tell the difference either. This notion that China with its ridiculous financial market is going to replace ours is laughable. We're at 127% LTV but at least our inflation is cooking at 9% a year. We're going to be out of the shit faster than China is going to unwind all that bad debt they own. That's why they're so desperate to partner with Russia. They need Russian cash to pay for Chinese debt service before the capital plant falls on its face. And that is something none of these 'de-dollarization' suckers want to talk about. You can't pump up a bubble with just cash. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of how money works. Thinking you can swap out one kind of money for another, that money is just molecule-credit and the issuer is just a boomer fiat-maker is wrong. Money is lifestyle. And the lifestyle in China sucks shit, my zero Covid lockdown friends. Russia's not much better. Europe has seen better days. There will be turmoil, but unless nationalist conservative countries suddenly ditch their xenophobia (and why would they?), America is staying on top.