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Cannot be done legally in any place other than like Somalia. It can be done illegally but good luck finding investors for that. I am planning to build my own soon actually but it will be done via illegal contracts.

I have taken multiple IQ tests in many different settings including under trained professionals and score usually between 138-142. This was her first time taking Stanford Binet and got 145. She murders me at scrabble and anything like word puzzles and such. But when it comes to math I am very talented and am very successful at financial modeling. So it seems accurate for both of us. If all regression to the mean is, is the relationship with the bell curve then that is very simple. I thought it was more involved than that. The reason being intelligence is not a specific genetic trait like eye color is. Its not like is blue/brown/green/etc in your dna but its more like x trait delivers 2% extra brain blood flow, y trait makes 1% better use of each brain cell, z trait has 3% more usable brain cells. So some specific combination of these traits will make you intelligent but if you have extra blood flow but no extra cells it won't do anything at all. And so my girlfriends intelligence may be based off traits a b c q while mine are a b q z y and if we have a kid they may be a b c z which may be just as intelligent or not work together well and make the kid a moron.

Country A makes cars efficently Country A makes shoes inefficiently Country B makes cars inefficiently Country B makes shoes efficiently Its much better for A to buy shoes from B and B to buy cars from A. Now say A is the most efficient at both shoes and cars. B is only decent at shoes and terrible at cars. Well A should buy cars first from itself at max capacity, then buy shoes from itself as much as it can provide. If its short it should buy shoes from B. While B should buy cars from A and shoes from A if ever available and then shoes from B itself for remaining needs. This will always produce more overall economic value, every time.

Capital and workers are just the same as goods. If workers or capital move from one country to another then the comparative advantages change. Money is a product. Workers are no different than capital goods. Also, this is also Macro country level. On a micro level its always better. Since nobody here is claiming to be The Master Planner and control all production of every product, macro level is irrelevant. It is only good for demonstrating the idea. On a micro level it never fails. 1. It is always more profitable for a company to buy the cheapest (of comparable quality) supplies. 2. It is always better for consumers to buy cheaper (of comparable quality) products. 3. It is always better for job seekers to have the highest level and paying jobs available. (Unless they are morons, then its better for them if we had stone age economies but lets just assume average people for now) All three of these are maximized by completely free exchange of ideas, capital, workers, products.

If my girlfriend started a fight about feminism I would either just laugh at her and keep watching TV. If she was literally screaming in my face or something I would either pick her up and put her over my knee and spank her or I would leave and not come back until she contacted me and apologized. Never play into female hysteria. Ever.