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A moment after your child is born, doctors offer you a **one-time pill** for your newborn that would greatly increase the probability that they join the **social and economic elite** (high-rank politician, big company executive, top sportsperson, very rich person, popular intellectual, etc). Only side effect: the pill would also greatly increase the probability that they end up at the **bottom of the social ladder** (criminal, incarcerated, homeless, addicted, suicidal, murdered, etc). Assume the pill is known to be safe and effective.

_Would you give that pill to your child?_

@tripu

It depends...

How long can we wait to abort them?

@tripu

"high-ranking politician" and "criminal" is the same thing.

@tripu
It's a probability pill. So, I would have to know if the odds are greater to become the first or the last. 😉

@tripu I wouldn't give a pill which did the opposite either. It's too much messing with nature.
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