[whatotherway]

Or is it the question of being successful?

He might not have much money, he might be in a crap job, but in the biological sense, he is successful, because he has many children, and if more of those children have children themselves, then his genes are spread wider and wider. Listening to him, it makes you wonder about the acceptance criteria for sperm.

Some years ago, there was a documentary on sperm donors in different countries and it some the questions they filled out in different places before their sperm was accepted.

One country, they wanted to know how rich, successful you were, if you made the money yourself of if it was inherited, your college/university degrees, your job title, and they even administrated an IQ test. They didn't reject people who fell below a certain IQ, but they did put this information on each packet of sperm, and the women who got the donations, were very careful in selecting who they wanted to father their children.

If I remember correctly, they ended up throwing away a lot of unused packets, when they reached their used by dates, and most of them were for blue collar/lower IQ men.

Contrast that with when I was young living in the US and almost did a sperm donation, and found myself surrounded by addicts and drunks all eager for their $30, with no questions asked. I spoke to some before I decided to not bother, and they told me they went from the sperm bank to the blood bank on a regular basis, to keep themselves in drugs.

What a way to live, anaemic and drained... in every way possible.