Institute For The Future

Genetics Causes Half Of Entrepreneurship

Randall Parker of FuturePundit discusses a research study that looks at genetics and entrepreneurship in this post.

 

A main finding: nearly half—48 percent—of an individual's propensity to become self-employed is genetic.

 

He brings up interesting questions and a thought:

Will parents choose those qualities based on a desire to make their kids self-employed? Or will they choose those qualities mainly for other reasons and will the effect on entrepreneurial behavior come as a side effect of choices made for other reasons?

 

People in different cultures, economic classes, occupations, religions, and with different genetically determined qualities for their own minds will make different choices on average. Will this tend to make the human race diverge? Or will there be a wide consensus on all the important genetically controlled qualities of the mind and will humanity tend to converge?

 

One split I expect: I predict some religious folks will choose genetic qualities that make their kids more inclined to have faith. Whereas more empirically minded folks will choose genetic qualities that make their kids highly skeptical, critical, and empirical. Though some of a more socialistic bent might choose qualities that make kids turn out more altruistic and group-oriented.

 

These are some of the issues that IFTF will be exploring as we dive deeper into Intentional Biology.

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