Idiocracy In Action

Don't say Mike Judge isn't a prophet. Not only did he know that your job at a giant technology company was a prison, but he is also predicting the downfall of mental capacity, generation by generation.

If the chart to the right is any indication, it may have begun.

Originally posted at popjolly.com, this chart not only shows that Americans spend an ungodly amount of money on producing life, but that those producing life are less educated than the average American.

65% of women giving birth in the United States today either have attended or graduated high school. 18% have not graduated from high school.

Based on the absurd expense of birthing then raising a child (costs of raising a child to the age of 18 range from $250,000 to $400,000), wouldn't it be stellar to be married and have a more likely second income? Yeah, it would, but 4 in 10 new mothers are not married.

While it's a massive assumption on my part to accuse women with mere high school diplomas (or none at all) idiots, how they match up to the rest of the population in the job market is a mark of a major economic disadvantage. This surfaces in the measure of unemployment rate by education level.

Unemployment rate among those without a high school diploma: 14.6%

With a high school diploma: 9.7%

Unemployment is obviously indicating of household income level. A higher household income begets health care, and an improvement in health care leads to better school performance.

So if we could just find a non-profit organization that can provide birth control to young women while they get their education...

Oh...right...I guess that's not really a priority right now. Oops.