Petitions calling for the cancelation of Meade are circulating, so here is a copy of the PDF for posterity.
Mead invokes “inner authority” as the lacking feature of impoverished individuals. As behavior is highly heritable, I am not as optimistic as he is that there is a solution to the problem.
A false premise we work with is that poor people are poor because they have no money. To eradicate poverty, just give poor people money. A small percentage of the wealth of Bill Gates or Warren Buffet will do.
By giving poor people money, you empower them to make more expensive bad decisions. As long as population IQ is normally distributed and centered at 100, we will always have to live with poverty. Both behavior and intelligence are highly heritable. Only population control i.e. discouraging individuals who can’t afford children from having children, will address the poverty issue. As this smells of racism, eugenics, etc., we cannot discuss the only viable cure for poverty.