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I'm a runner/gamer from Maine who went to school in Ohio and ended up as a philosophy professor in...Florida.
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Good to see you on Bluesky.
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There is no victory in philosophy. :)
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Intuitive, intelligence does help with any goals but there are other ways to achieve those goals. For example, there are clearly people who are exceptionally wealthy but are both appallingly ignorant and not very smart.
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We'd also need to define "intelligence" and "skillful" in non question begging ways. For example, if intelligence is defined so that income is factored in, then people with higher incomes would be more intelligent by definition.
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Yeah, income is what you got coming in and wealth is what you got.
In terms of your claim, I must defer to people who study the subject.
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I can't discern what your argument is here.
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That is an odd comparison to make but is similar to what I see being used in the context of poverty. That is, arguing people are not poor today because they have TVs and not even kings had them in the Middle Ages.
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While "high quality education" is a relative concept and vague, my usage suffices for the context of debating on Bluesky. For a full definition, I'd turn to experts in education and that is what I mean by the term.
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It depends on what you mean by "short supply." We do have finite resources but we could allocate them differently. We could, for example, ensure that every child got a high quality education, housing, health care and proper nutrition. That is well within America's resources.
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Wealthy parents also tend to have wealthy parents, so this would also affect the results.