#728 - Gregory Clark - Is Social Status Determined By Your Genetics?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Gregory Clark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, researcher and an author. Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family. But fascinating new research suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics, and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is very unlikely. Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can tell where the next 10 generations of children will fall on the social ladder, how higher and lower social status can impact the birthrate, why more attractive people have more social status, the difficulties of publishing research like this and much more... Sponsors: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://www.shopify.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get an exclusive discount from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 5.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:03.0	My guest today is Gregory Clark.
0:05.0	He's a professor of economics at the University of California Davis,
0:08.0	a researcher, and an author.
0:10.0	Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family, but fascinating new research
0:15.2	suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics,
0:19.8	and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is actually very unlikely.
0:25.9	Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can tell where the next 10 generations
0:36.2	of children will fall on the social ladder, how higher and lower status can impact the birth rate,
0:42.2	why more attractive people have more social status,
0:45.1	the difficulties of publishing research like this, and much more.
0:50.9	Perhaps unsurprisingly, Greg's work has been a little unpopular in certain circles, but it is fascinating.
0:59.2	It is so, so interesting and I really, really hope that you enjoy this one also I'm back in Austin
1:05.3	look at me I've left the UK behind after my Christmas break and I'm back here
1:10.4	ready to do some real damage to the next few months and we've gone. I'm off to Vegas and
1:15.0	LA next week. We can a bit and the lineup is just so wild. I cannot wait to show you the episodes that we've got
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