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I answered the comment which used "extremely poor" and "subsistence farmers" so I used the international poverty line ($1.90). At $3.2 (World Bank's lower middle income poverty lin…

The current number of extremely poor people in China is less than 30 million, less than 2% of population. From Google: "According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people we…

US pension funds together are worth $22 trillion. This is 61% of global pension funds and much much larger than the Saudi funds. They should invest a small part into Vision Funds a…

If the drug is out of patent and it is very profitable, why doesn't anyone set up a company to manufacture and sell it cheaper in the US? Same question with epipen.

Is it not possible to order a generic from India or another country? The drug should be out of patent a long while already? If no competitor is available, why doesn't anyone set it…

The current statistics in 2017 is around 600 million in rural area. Their monthly income is 3300 yuan or around 500 USD, more than $15 a day. According to World Bank, a country wit…

Economic growth is usually measured in percentage terms. There are good reasons for that. If they can keep the growth rate, the Chinese economy will be larger than the US in about …

Some populations practice having as many children as they can because their belief system calls for it. They believe they will get more brownie points from a supreme being for that…

What does Italy have that China cannot produce itself? Brand name products, basic machines and chemicals which Italy exports are not important to their development. Russia has oil,…

China's shifting to domestic consumption and strong Yuan is better than weak Yuan. Strong currency will also reduce capital flight from the country and increase its financial power…

I don't think the religions preach what people want to hear. They built procreation into their belief system to make sure they will have bigger and bigger adherents. It works and m…

Several major religions in poor developing countries preach having more kids. They don't care about environmental impact or sustainability. They believe their God will provide. How…

People care about many things. But if they get one good thing like intelligence without losing others, they will go for it. In China, they do not have religious reasons against imp…

Other powers have nukes too, so using it is out of the question. If nukes are not used, technology and economic capacity will determine the results. Russia has a lot of good engine…

With a large number of DNA sequences, the genetic cause can be separated from environmental. That's why embryo selection is possible. Getting parent's DNAs sequenced might be neede…

Modern advanced society already requires a high minimum intelligence for people to function in especially to hold a respectable job or be a respectable member of a community. The m…

To relate this to the news about CTE in American Football, I wonder how much American mental potential has been lost to CTE. One thing for sure, very few East Asian and few Asian A…

To flesh out a large range of implications will take at least an effort worthy of a PhD dissertation. With successful embryo selection, at least we can keep up with the increasingl…

The interview was mainly about embryo selection, not genetic engineering.

Source? or calculation? The guy giving the figure is an evolutionary psychologist.