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There is a more insidious reason why employers shun people with high IQs for blue collar jobs. High IQ people may become natural leaders and can start unions or

There is a more insidious reason why employers shun people with high IQs for blue collar jobs. High IQ people may become natural leaders and can start unions or organize workers against management in other ways. High IQ people may find ways management is screwing up or quietly breaking some law or regulation or lying to customers and may make a stink. So it is not only a wholesome desire to keep geniuses from getting bored. Although I shouldn't badmouth those high IQ exclusionary policies. They saved me a lot of grief back when I was young and dumb. You see, once I actually ended up in a Navy recruitment office. Luckily I was not too dumb and "failed" the IQ test upwards.

rubber_duck 6y ago
> High IQ people may become natural leaders and can start unions or organize workers against management in other ways. Maybe you should take the dogma goggles off ? Public sector unions are pretty common without the "genius leaders" and from what I see police unions are often reported covering for the police officers caught in despicable wrongdoing and obstructing disciplinary measures - they are pretty much the worst example of a union you want to support, along with prison unions lobbying for more incarceration and so on.