Comments on: Class, Caste, and Genes https://www.isegoria.net/2012/11/class-caste-and-genes/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: The fourth doorman of the apocalypse https://www.isegoria.net/2012/11/class-caste-and-genes/comment-page-1/#comment-659692 The fourth doorman of the apocalypse Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:56:54 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30572#comment-659692 The problem is that we rarely see a real meritocracy.

Those at the top try to keep their progeny at the top as well, but regression to the mean means that their progeny are not as good as they are … and over a few generations they slip down the hill into the lower classes.

]]> By: Red https://www.isegoria.net/2012/11/class-caste-and-genes/comment-page-1/#comment-659429 Red Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:06:09 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30572#comment-659429 Most of the lower class moving themselves up are bastards of the upper class. My great grand father was sired by son of a wealthy businessman who refused to marry his mother. She then married a Swedish farmer before the child was born and they pretended the kid was the farmer’s. They had 11 other children in all and while each was successful in good fields (mechanic, machine shop worker, ect) only my great grandfather and later my grandfather really excelled. My grand father for example went from car mechanic to airline pilot and my father is a college professor. My line is heads and tails above theirs simply because our great, great grand father was a very smart guy and he passed it on to his bastard son’s line for 4 generations.

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