“Q: Why don’t people have the same capacity for self-regulation (delayed gratifi

–“Q: Why don’t people have the same capacity for self-regulation (delayed gratification, goal persistence, tolerance for frustration, and as such time preference.)”–

A very small number of traits determine one’s ability to participate in our high-trust moral civilization, because our high trust civilization requires self regulation that produces long term time preference:

And they work in a hierarchy:
1) Genetics >
2) Brain Development > Neuroticism > Conscientiousness > Intelligence >
3) Familial > Cultural > Institutional Training
4) Physical Fitness > knowledge > skill

Each step increases the possibility of self-regulation.

Genetics produce neurological development, training produces discipline, and education produces more discipline.

So no. The distribution of ability roughly but only roughly corresponds to the IQ distribution, and the classes and races correspond to the IQ distribution. Because at large scale, IQ is a proxy for brain development.

Because IQ is a rough measure of the friction of transmission of information in the brain, across all regions of the brain necessary for recursive perception, disambiguation, association, and prediction. ‘Cause that’s all the brain does. 😉

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