Do you actually not grasp that people who have low aptitude for intellectual labor but high aptitude for physical labor actually want to work jobs where they aren’t constantly struggling? Both of my parents are high school dropouts who work blue collar jobs and have always expressed a preference for this work. My father’s job is physical labor much of which is outdoors and he always considered that an upside to the job. He worked quite successfully at a related desk job for a few years at one point and did not like it. He was offered a higher paying management position and did not take it because he neither enjoyed nor desired that type of work.
This sort of statement is easily the highest form of ignorance espoused by the upper classes. Some people prefer a consistent job with physical rather than mental demands and prefer it to the extent that they will not accept higher class labor unless they cease to be able to sustain a personally acceptable quality of life with the pay they receive for physical labor.
I’m too hungover someone go explain to these nerds what this means in terms of disproving the profit motive.
Brain Plasticity isn’t a thing. You’re either born an Eloi or a Morloch, and wouldn’t it be nice if everyone just stuck to their genetically predisposed castes?
Why do you want people who are naturally good at dancing and picking flowers to do the confusing and difficult work of snatching people from the glade and dragging them into the ground to be devoured?
I mean, I’ve worked jobs where everyone there was there because they were neorodivergent and would suffer in another job. Shit like backcountry guiding, trail building, ski guiding, etc. I think there is a genetic component.
That said, the article’s still trash, and Horroway’s right about everything 😉
I mean yeah, genes can have an impact. Someone who can eat dairy products without any problems is more likely to be a cheesemaker than someone who throws up after eating cheese. However, all the places where genes might make an impact the person will figure out for themselves, we won’t need to analyze them to figure it out. It wasn’t some secret allele that makes people predisposed to trail-guiding, it was a very obvious genetic difference that they dealt with themselves.
I mean, I think its heavily overstated. People love to create a hostile work environment and then attribute attrition to “bad fit” rather than “shit management”.
But yes, this article is on a whole lower level of shit takes.
backcountry guiding, trail building, ski guiding, etc.
these have a lot of neurodivergent people?
