Let’s say our wonderful government gives you a “free” university education. If your average monthly salary is for eg. R40k per month, you’ll pay around R4 million in PAYE tax by the time you retire. + R2 million in VAT.

This is what “free” stuff from government looks like.

Btw, this excludes all the other levies, taxes and duties you’ll pay throughout your life.
But ok, government provides policing, state hospitals, basic education, etc, right?

Wrong. These institutions are so dysfunctional that you’re going to end up paying thousands every month for private medical, schooling, security, etc.
Please tell me why we have one of the highest personal income tax rates in the world?

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THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ

1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)


4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)