Industrialists in the US advocated for (and implemented!) forced society-level eugenics as a way of creating a more &quot;desirable&quot; pool of employees for them to exploit.  Germany just copied the US, then the robber barons had to distance themselves from the ideas of controlling humanity person-by-person.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eugenics_in_the_United_States#Influence_on_Nazi_Germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eugenics_in_the_United_States#Euthanasia_programs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eugenics_in_the_United_States#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:United_States_eugenics_advocacy_poster.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...</a> — &quot;Every 7 1&#x2F;2 minutes a high grade person is born in the US&quot; almost sounds like modern tech&#x2F;startup &quot;some people are actually just better than others&quot; rhetoric.