I'm inclined to agree with that. Maybe if jobs for all skill-sets were still growing (in availability and compensation) it'd be easier to write off a good port

I'm inclined to agree with that. Maybe if jobs for all skill-sets were still growing (in availability and compensation) it'd be easier to write off a good portion of the population as mentally inferior, but now that knowledge jobs are gaining a monopoly on living wages/salaries I don't think it's as easy to be that glib. We need to do better as a society. We're not that glib when it comes to children and early education, and I don't think we should change attitude just because a person has reached adulthood. Laziness and/or the attribution fallacy seems to get the better of a lot of us on HN.