It’s a fucking bell curve, and IQ is a rather vague measure.

Most people will be between 90 and 110, and 95 would be just as a about average as 105.

OK, so tax anyone with more wealth than that (exponentially proportionally to the difference) and invest in services and UBI and whatnot until it raises.

Nah, 105 is around average, and people are dumb as fuck.

“low IQ”

Read their username. They’re obviously a troll, probably piloted by an LLM.

Username checks out.

They’re still financially obese parasites whose wealth should be taxed until it doesn’t exceed a reasonable amount (say, ten times the median or 25 times the lowest, whichever comes first), though.

Correct (when it comes to billionaires; Sam Altman and his ilk intentionally caused the RAM shortage by buying RAM their companies are not using and should be held accountable).

Billionaires would be impossible in a properly civilised society, which would implement progressive taxes so that anyone with a wealth above, say, ten times the median wealth of the population or 25 times the wealth of the poorest person (citizen or not) in the nation (whichever’s lowest at the time) are taxed to the point that their wealth can increase no further, with the resulting income being invested on public services so that personal wealth is irrelevant except for luxury items.

$3.50? Done!

Congratulations, you now owe $80 billion.

Al Capone got got on tax evasion. If this is what gets Trump in jail, so be it.

It’ll be easier to stick him with the rest of it once he’s behind bars.

Where he’d probably immediately be sent to the front lines in Ukraine.

GNU Sir pTerry.

May his hair grow inwards, and his haemorrhoids grow as large as apples.

May he fall face first into a gympie-gympie bush and choke on one of its branches.

May his digestive system reverse direction and develop acid reflux and Crohn’s disease at the same time.

May every single orifice in his body become infested with particularly large parasitic wasps.

And the worst one: may he develop empathy and common sense and realise what a plague he is on humanity.

I don’t know, billionaires are pretty revolting, and the ones on the Epstein files doubly so.

What Americans call “left” would be considered moderate conservative centre-right in any civilised country (anything left of that you’d call communism).

Your “leftist” politicians (the so called “democrats") are regular right wing conservative populists, with some extra ultracapitalism and religious fundamentalism sprinkled on top.

What you’d call right wing or conservative (republicans) are ultracapitalist ultrafundamentalist far right fringe maniacs.

And maga are outright unapologetic fascists, on top of that (though, to be fair, fascism has been a core value in the USA for a long time, and at least these bastards don’t try to hide it; non-fascist nations don’t wave their flags everywhere, all day, every day, and they certainly don’t make their children recite pledges of allegiance, much less every day before starting school).

There hasn’t been any political left in the USA for several decades, if ever.

Torvalds going senile is (one more) reason to migrate to BSD, not to praise slop.

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I’m sorry, what?

Peter Parker being seen as a nerd when out of his suit is one of the defining characteristics of Spider-Man.

Their intelligence the defining characteristic of Richards and Stark (also his money in the latter case, but he’s lost that on occasion without that making him not be Iron Man, in fact the one time he did stop being Iron Man was because his alcoholism was making him too irrational).

Banner’s intelligence is almost always a necessary counterpoint to Hulk’s brutishness.

Going to DC, Batman’s main asset is arguably his intelligence. Sure, he’s a ninja, sure, he’s a billionaire, sure, he’s dark and scary. But take all that away and his intelligence will still allow him to keep fighting crime.

Speaking of Batman, I forgot about Daredevil; sure, again, he’s a ninja with super-senses (except for sight), but we see a lot of him being a lawyer, and he sometimes wins in the court what he couldn’t win by beating people up. Also dude won against fucking Mephisto, obviously not by beating him with his little sticks, but through sheer conviction. It took Doctor Victor Von fucking Doom decades to beat that devil. Matt fucking Murdock beat him in four issues by essentially turning the other cheek.

Side notes? Far from it. (In Richards’ case, and arguably in Stark’s most of the time, heroing is the side note; the Fantastic Four almost never go looking for it, rather stumbling upon it from time to time, and Stark spends most of his time looking after his company, not seeking crime to fight.)

Yeah, paperclip didn’t care about the people who gave the orders, only about the ones who made their orders possible.

Let Tom Lehrer sing you a song about one of them…

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I don’t know about DC (I know Batman and Mr. Terrific exist, but that’s about it; also Blue Beetle might be somewhat of an Iron Man expy, I think?), but when it comes to Marvel…

Peter Parker is a world class chemist and engineer. He created his web fluid and designed his web shooters, which definitely counts as using his brain to solve crime.

Tony Stark, world class engineer, designed and built the armours he uses to fight crime.

Reed Richards is one of the topmost scientists and engineers in the world in practically any field. Using his brain to solve / create problems is what the Fantastic Four do (fighting crime is incidental, really).

Hank Pym, aka Ant Man, aka Giant Man, aka Yellowjacket (on a bad day), is up there with Richards at the top, when he isn’t suffering from mental illness or depression. He discovered the particles that bear his name and give him (and others) his powers, which he uses to fight crime.

Bruce Banner is almost up there, above them when it comes to nuclear physics. He uses his mind to… OK, fine, I’ll give you this one, most of the time.

Hank McCoy, aka Beast, also top level engineer and general scientist. He designs and makes most of the tools (except the ones made by Forge, or by Kitty Pryde) the X-Men use to, uh… well, mostly try to defend themselves and other mutants from human racists trying to kill them, or humans from mutant racists trying to kill them, and sometimes to try and take over the world, I think…? I don’t know, I haven’t read the X-Men in a long time but it seems they’ve been drifting from light to dark grey this last decade; but, still, he uses his brain, is what matters. Fists and feet too, but also brain.

And those are the top ones that come to mind, but with the exception of Captain America that’s basically core Marvel right there.