Our problems are caused by like 5 guys owning everything, not because stupid people have more kids than smart people. So no, Idiocracy did not predict all of this.
Then why are the stupid people so violently against birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ+ rights, and so obsessed with breeding?
Elon Musk’s Breeding Spree Is So Much Wilder Than You Thought.
The billionaire bureaucrat, who wants a “legion-level” of offspring, has reportedly solicited women on X to have his children and pays his kids’ mothers millions to keep quiet.
It really didn’t, and the entire premise of “Idiocracy as predictor” is a genuinely nasty thing. As it stands birth rate doesn’t seem to primarily correlate with intelligence, but socioeconomic status and education. Painting poor people as stupid breeders who will outcompete the genteel intelligentsia isn’t some new and prophetic idea.
It’s shitty, and using the movie as a canard for that old and tired view is shitty as well.
Our problems are caused by like 5 guys owning everything, not because stupid people have more kids than smart people. So no, Idiocracy did not predict all of this.
Then why are the stupid people so violently against birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ+ rights, and so obsessed with breeding?
Elon Musk’s Breeding Spree Is So Much Wilder Than You Thought. The billionaire bureaucrat, who wants a “legion-level” of offspring, has reportedly solicited women on X to have his children and pays his kids’ mothers millions to keep quiet.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musks-children-as...
https://archive.is/3Y8IF
It's funny that people cite Idiocracy despite its explicitly eugenicist premise.
It really didn’t, and the entire premise of “Idiocracy as predictor” is a genuinely nasty thing. As it stands birth rate doesn’t seem to primarily correlate with intelligence, but socioeconomic status and education. Painting poor people as stupid breeders who will outcompete the genteel intelligentsia isn’t some new and prophetic idea.
It’s shitty, and using the movie as a canard for that old and tired view is shitty as well.
We still have another 480 years of this to go.