I’m a little peeved that individuals with high IQs are often perceived to be inherently desirable under all circumstances. High IQ people are more likely to be frustrated by performing many tasks that are absolutely critical for a functioning society. “Dumb” people can be incredibly valuable.
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Hi. I would like you to know that you’re an elitist asshole who loves the smell if their own farts.
Intelligence is NOT a good determiner of the kind of job you will do in society and most people who work shit, undervalued jobs are in that position not because they aren’t smart, but because society bludgeoned them until any other path seemed impossible.
people who work on assembly lines are able to do it because they need money to live in a capitalist society, and so will take the available job. id hesitate to say theyre “fine” with it and are content only knowing how to do that thing. think about where you find factory work and what kind of condition the people who work there generally live in.
Yeah I don’t think saying people are “fine” with anything they do for work really overlooks that people are doing it to keep a roof over their head . Hell the whole ‘an intelligent person wouldn’t like X job’ totally glosses over the idea that jobs are not the only outlet of mental exercise.
If anything I think there does need to be a hereditarian left
jfc liberals
it,s fascinating to me that some people value “not conciding anything to neonazis” than figuring what is true
- Guy with Milton Friedman avatar
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Even if the answer to the first question were “genes predict 100% of academic performance differences”, I would still insist that eugenics policies are an unconscionable violation of the right to bodily autonomy.
What a fucking dweeb. What better way to illustrate that you’re an ivory basement weirdo with no skin in the game than to refer to eugenics / genocide as “a violation of the right to bodily autonomy.”
A violation was performed on the rights and autonomy of certain members of the population of our current society, which affects birth trends in an effort to create a new and better society than previously possible from genetic potential, based on our theories and understanding of inheritance.
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?
