This reminds me of something somebody told me a long time ago: Just because everybody agrees on something, that does not normalize a thing or a behaviour.
Yeah, that being said, this is what my work is about, intelligence, so basically I work with people who are autistic or/with learning difficulties (mostly) and genius or talented people (rarely) as learning difficulties and autism are the ones that are receiving funding. The genius and talented part is mostly ignored.
it happens in schools a lot too now - 80% of the resources go to the bottom 20%, not the top. I get it, but what we are essentially doing now is putting a huge amount of resources into areas that aren't going to get much return, and eventually, the books just don't balance.
Can you imagine how 8000 geniuses together can change the world? (That is an average estimate number of people that get lost through the system and never achieve full potential just in the UK, per decade.)
We are terribly bad at resource allocation of all kinds - just look at how much we spend on war.
Yeah - it is a good way to look at it. Just think about how some of the worst atrocities humans have inflicted on other humans, have been "agreed to".