A boy is born into the Colonel Sanderson's plantation. Young eyes see thousands in stooped labor on vast fields disappearing to the horizon.
attention is finite. land is finite. resources are finite. access to qualified doctors is finite. access to food is finite (something we'll realize at the next great famine). access to water is finite. your time living on earth is finite (and shorter the less money you have).
we operate at a scale where that matters nowadays.
And note that being an IQ denier would transform your question in an insult to intelligence.
What are you trying to get at? Could you be more direct? I'm having trouble making sense of this post.
How their daily lives will cross vs common experiences with substantial opportunities creators be permanently aborted?
How that wouldn't produce irreversible consequences in a population?
You could say, oh wait, just loosing one Elon has zero impact in a population and yet whole humanity might not become multiplanetary without that one guy in the country that had created the conditions for that raising a ton of talented guys up.
But Social Darwinism is an ugly way to see the world.