| This question <4|16> overall <13|15> Stuart: <14|14>. |
| Question 14: Describe a situation in daily life in which the extraneous relation between wealth and wealth holder becomes an issue. |
| [14] Stuart: Remnants of Aristocracy. The more I started thinking about this question the more difficult it became to answer. One of the difficulties in answering this question has to do with how one defines intelligence. By intelligence do we mean solely a genetic trait or do we mean combination of genetic and environmentally influenced traits (such as education). For this question I will use the latter definition. With the latter definition there is the aspect of genetics, which we don't have control over and that of environment, which we have some control over. One element of environment that we don't have any control over is what social class we are born into. This of course is a huge determinant in what choices and opportunities are available to us. For example one born into poverty will not have the same opportunities as those born into more privileged circumstances. |
| In the context of our society, intelligence is one of the many determinants of how much wealth one acquires. And as AntonioGramsci mentioned intelligence might be missing from the equation entirely. However hypothetically, even if accumulation of wealth was based primarily upon intelligence, such a system would be far from equitable since many contributing factors of intelligence are beyond our control. Therefore under such a system much of the distribution of wealth would be based upon chance. |
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