Abstract

The U.Q. Test for Success

The article focuses on why some people achieve material success while others lead nasty, brutish and short lives of quiet desperation. The critical factor has been provisionally named the "unscrupulousness quotient," or U.Q. Life-time income correlates almost perfectly with U.Q. The distribution of income in the U.S. has always favored those with high U.Q., but the disparity is growing. Poverty will interfere with the fruits of high U.Q. The remaining government programs serving those with low U.Q. require higher taxes. Systematic extermination has been proposed, using capital punishment, denial of medical care, closure of public schools and elimination of welfare programs that interfere with homelessness and starvation. A radical proposal is to maintain those with lower U.Q. as necessary to the continuation of the high-U.Q. way of life.