School achievement in England is about 60% heritable ...

It's in our DNA to compete with one another and gain advantage for ourselves and our families ahead of others.

This was important for our distant ancestors who competed for scarce resources, and continues to be important now in a world full of competition and inequality.

Successful people tend to be better at raising successful children. No surprises there - they have more resources, and their offspring have better odds of being superior themselves. This will only become more pronounced as genetic screening techniques improve and become widely available for successful people.

These things will never change. Even in a society of perfectly equal opportunity, natural variation will always mean that some people sink whilst others naturally rise to the top.

Viewed through this lens, we might as well push the small numbers of humanity capable to the upper limits of what we can achieve.

It won't be mediocre people we send off into space to colonise distant worlds as Earth becomes increasingly polluted and overcrowded.

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