The Fair tax as been torn apart many times. In fact, I'm surprised to see it mentioned again on /.
IN short, the Fair Tax would destroy the middle class with any practical implementation.

It needs to be both.
The most excess consumption of the rich will be far less then their capital growth; which leads to a fewer and fewer people having wealth.
The minimal consumption on the poor will still be more then there wealth growth.
You need to tax where the money is.

"a recently graduated yet unemployed due to lack of experience computer programmer"
They are either in the wrong area, or have no motivation. It is an in demand field.

IN this case? the mean smarter. They aren't talking about id something is intelligent.

Those are separate things. You can also have smart and well adjusted people.

We did do the least expensive o first. What? you think changing society would be cheap?
First, you need to get people to realize that no, they don't actually instinctively know whats best for their child, and yes we all should pool are knowledge about children together.
Right now we live in a 'She is my child, therefor I know everything that's best for her' mentality that is hurts children and society.

You are under the delusion there is some sort of balance.. With genetic selection you can max them all out.*

*their potential, yada yad, etc . . .

It will go into the home recycler and energy machine a bunch of smart people invented.

Of course natural selection is working, there is just fewer ways to be selected out. I.e. the pressure has changed.

"we pretty much switched natural selection off.."
no. We just changes the pressure.

" seeing as look are very much dependent on the current fashion"
there are several things that are timeless, and the ones that aren't are social.
about 6 feet, strong and athletic is pretty much always in style.
People are now attracted to fat people? eat more doughnuts. Thin? don't eat doughnuts
Muscular? Lift more doughnuts.(not to your mouth) Party and skinny? eat doughnuts made with heroine.

Man I'm craving doughnuts.

Welcome to reality.
Also: Compared nest to the rest of the universe, you are so small as to statistically not even exist.
Also: You are very likely to die someday.

Maybe you should focus on other things then the fact we are just a sack of chemicals walking around for a bit. Like climbing, or building, or killing spys in TF2*

*The most noble and worthy cause. F'n OP spys.

"and a perfectly peaceful man can commit a horrible murder if everyone believes him to be perfectly peaceful."
that is. literally, nonsense.

"and a violent man can commit a horrible murder if everyone believes him to be perfectly peaceful."

IQ isn't everything, but it is a thing, and important. So yes we should increase it.
I think one of the problem is that everyone thinks there is some balance that happens. Like spending points on a character sheet.

There isn't. If they raise the IQ 15 point everything else is still there. Nothing gets worse. Same genetics otherwise, same household.

So you would choose the easy path with no consideration of their future? You are exactly the type of selfish person who should not have kids.

Because not giving a dowry would make the family a social outcast.

Outside of the lab, economics is never simple. Society is a much more important.