I'm sorry but if you're 200 IQ I think you should be able to handle a car breaking down.

Take three months, work some menial job, save up, go to state or city college. Literally thousands of people without 200 IQ do this every day. Every job I had I've been rewarded for being slightly above average intelligence. People found out I can figure out how to use PowerPoint well, they had me doing presentations. I could follow instructions, don't need things repeated to me. I know now to argue or bite the hand that feeds me.

You're coming off as incredibly sheltered and never been exposed to regular people. You paint these fantasies in your head how it's basically impossible to survive.

This guy didn't start from zero. He started from 200 IQ. That's a huge advantage is my point. No one owes you anything in life due to your natural ability. You have to apply it. Your fantasy stories about rural Americans being helpless to determine their own fate is honestly offensive.

You’re overly focusing on the IQ, and completely hand waving the structural advantages. You do not understand.

HN is amazing. Someone posts an article, and the subject of the article turns up in the comments.