"You can argue that there will always be fewer chifes than Indians, but if the Indians are higher IQ - life is way way better for all concerned."I'm going to eat a peach and disagree with mensarefugee.China is a high IQ society and conditions there run from miserable to abysmal (there's an article circulating today about the cost of illness due to pollution in China). India, though I don't remember its average IQ standing, obviously has a lot of smart people. Pollution is a problem in both countries and the living conditions of the poor, illiterate masses are hellish.For most jobs you don't need a very high IQ. According to studies about psychology in the workplace, job satisfaction will be greater if you are slightly but not overly challenged at work. Being employed at a task far beneath you intellectually isn't going to make you a better worker. You might have a personality that drives you to do everything to perfection but someone with 20 - 40 IQ points lower than you is going to get that bathroom just as clean. Sorry. More likely you will be bored and find other amusements to distract you, get promoted or quit.My theory is that what matters is how egalitarian the society is (maybe populist is a better word). Higher average IQ probably helps the proletariat keep the elites from hording all the wealth but its the culture/society itself that fosters good working and living conditions. For instance, imagine what a boost it would be to average IQ in the US if college graduates were enthusiastic about teaching in our public schools. This might be the case if students respected their teachers and were motivated to attend class and study. The average IQ would certainly be higher after a generation or two but what made the rise in IQ possible would have been a change in culture rather than DNA. Though I'm completely burned out on all things Mexican - not only was the average IQ higher than I'd expect, mid 80s I think, there's no way to gauge the intelligence of a population of rural illiterate Indians without removing a good many of their children from the parents at birth and raising them in a "paper smart" society. The two biggest problems with the mass importation of illiterate Mexicans is that it is to their advantage to undercut the wages of American workers and they are too large a group to be assimilated into our political culture.Let's not forget that we are looking at average IQ and not the extremes. Certainly a jump from 82 to 102 would be beneficial all round but I believe a good education can make that much difference in IQ.