In the past, having a useful attribute increased your chance of surviving, whereas in modern society, it increased your chance of having a better life.

For example, being strong or being smart in the past meant there was more likelihood you could survive, whereas in modern society weak members of society are protected and everyone has equal opportunity to mate.

The other thing in modern society is that people tend to marry people they have similiar qualities. For example, good looking people tend to marry other good looking people, smart people tend to marry other smart people. Short people will marry other short people.

In addition, people who mate will more likely bring up children that have similar qualities to them.

Wouldn’t eventually you would have two human races? One race full of people with really good qualities like being tall, intelligent, good looking etc. and another race with all the bad qualities like being short, ugly, stupid etc. Qualities that once would’ve been weeded out by natural selection, but is kept because modern society provides welfare to.

Bonus aspect – non-educated people tend to have more kids, whilst educated people tend to have less kids. How does that affect the balance of evolution. Would there be a minority of superior people, and a whole bunch of really inferior people?

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