Name: beachjustice 2009-05-14 2:12
So i've been thinking about the benefits of a caste system in a collectivist society.
As in, every person that excels at a particular occupation can only marry and reproduce with another that does the same.
I think one good example (the only example i have actually considered) might be India. I have read that it is speculated that most people in India have an IQ of about 90, which is fairly low compared to northern europeans and east asians. This is because the largest caste, the laborers, have a mean IQ of about 90. However, the brahmins, a separate caste, who have historically been the rulers, landowners, politicians, engineers, professionals, etc. in india have a mean IQ of about 118, which is higher than most any largely exclusively interbreeding population on earth.
So this got me thinking. Perhaps a society with an organized caste system can, given enough time and generations of selective breeding, increase productivity and maximize proficiency of the laborers/innovators/soldiers/rulers/etc at their jobs. Ultimately resulting in a highly intellectual class of rulers and innovators, and a lower class of those that specialize best at being commanded and doing the labor.
As in, every person that excels at a particular occupation can only marry and reproduce with another that does the same.
I think one good example (the only example i have actually considered) might be India. I have read that it is speculated that most people in India have an IQ of about 90, which is fairly low compared to northern europeans and east asians. This is because the largest caste, the laborers, have a mean IQ of about 90. However, the brahmins, a separate caste, who have historically been the rulers, landowners, politicians, engineers, professionals, etc. in india have a mean IQ of about 118, which is higher than most any largely exclusively interbreeding population on earth.
So this got me thinking. Perhaps a society with an organized caste system can, given enough time and generations of selective breeding, increase productivity and maximize proficiency of the laborers/innovators/soldiers/rulers/etc at their jobs. Ultimately resulting in a highly intellectual class of rulers and innovators, and a lower class of those that specialize best at being commanded and doing the labor.