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Education is a proxy for IQ and conscientiousness. People with these characteristics (and importantly the wealth this provides) tend to make better neighbours.
by Moshe_Silnorin 11y ago
Education is a proxy for IQ and conscientiousness. People with these characteristics (and importantly the wealth this provides) tend to make better neighbours. Zuck dropped out of college, yet I very much doubt he'd be a terrible neighbour, nor would a neighbourhood full of Harvard dropouts be bad.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThe scuttlebutt around the neighborhood is actually that Zuck is a bit of a jackass, neighbor-wise. http://sfist.com/2016/01/13/zuckerberg_neighbor_wages_campaign.php http://sfist.com/2016/01/13/zuckerberg_neighbor_wages_campai...
- Moshe_Silnorin 11y agoMost of the problems seem to be externalities of his fame and wealth. Say Facebook didn't work out and he got a job at Google, I doubt he would be considered a bad neighbour.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>nor would a neighbourhood full of Harvard dropouts be bad. I think that surveying Alston or Cambridge might not lead to this conclusion.
- danieltillett 11y agoYes education correlates quite tightly with intelligence and conscientiousness, but just raising education levels on their own makes for better neighbours. Education is a good thing for all - the problem is we don’t have the jobs to go with all this education.