As few dumb people is always better than a few smart ones

This is a reprint from a tweet by Devon Stack.

Population average IQ matters a lot more than  individual IQ of people in key positions. 

Imagine you're trying to run a small burger joint. Would you rather hire a 135-IQ low-genius manager and a bunch of 85-IQ retards, or just a whole crew of 100-IQ normies, and appoint the slightly older and more mature one to be manager? 

Of course you would want the normies. 

There is nothing a smart leader can do to make retarded people not retarded. There is no magical brilliant idea he can have that will endow retards with the capacity to understand what "medium rare" looks like. He can't make them understand why smoking cannabis while working the grill is bad. He can't make them show up on time for their shift instead of calling him two hours later to ask him to come bail them out of jail. 

Smart people are helpless unless they are working on their own, or with people smart enough to understand their plans, goals, and instructions. 

You could airdrop a thousand a thousand Elon Musk clones into modern South Africa, and they'd just get beaten to death with sticks for using fancy words or being white. But look what America can do with only one. 

Low IQ populations do have geniuses, if they are large enough, but they do not benefit from them. Not only that, they tend to damage them by teaching them to become warlords or scam artists, which is the only way to get ahead in a low-IQ society. 

High-IQ, high-trust, high-cooperation societies are the only ones what can make use of their geniuses, and typically they can't import them except from societies that are also high-iq, high-trust, and high-cooperation. 

But that's okay, because you don't need that many geniuses. What you really need is non-idiots. 

Because geniuses don't maintain society. They move it ahead. And they can only do that if it's already well-maintained.