# Poverty and Intelligence

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poverty-and-intelligence/590008 "2011-07-22T18:35:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poverty-and-intelligence/590008/193 "2011-07-28T02:16:38Z")

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> [@What the hell ever happened to the white American man?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-ever-happened-to-the-white-american-man/589551/21):
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> Nothing has changed, dude. Do you really think this “mine, mine, mine!” attitude is something _new_ for white men? Seriously? I don’t know how anyone familiar with history could possibly conclude this “new trend” that you’re complaining about is anything except 2000 years of tradition, quite frankly. It is exactly why white men enjoy disproportionate levels of power today. Because they are culturally programmed to scream “Mine! Mine! Mine!”

So we’re not genetically predisposed to luck? Is it possible that sense of self-entitlement leads to disproportionate levels of power?

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