[IronRanger]

We should begin to harvest the eggs and sperm (or zygotes) of the most intelligent and productive people on the planet, and then pay people to bring those children to term and raise them. It would eliminate poverty.

[jointpdf]

Nice try, squid robot from The Matrix. "Harvesting" humans (or human ingredients) is for dystopias.

[google234123]

Good lucking a significant number of people to actually brith and raise these children - even for a decent income.

[sokoloff]

I also have doubts that people who did this for an income are likely to raise them in a way that results in strongly productive adults, even after accounting for some amount of regression to the mean.

[IronRanger]

Failing the implantation of zygotes, we could just allow a free market for sperm. Why shouldn't women or couples be able to pay $10,000 for the DNA of men like Elon Musk?

[google234123]

This already exists

[OisinMoran]

There's a book called The Genius Factory about a failed attempt at this.

[dagw]

Google "The Nobel prize sperm bank". Someone had already tried.

[blackcats]

Genes is less than 50% for intelligence.