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This is a more general and larger problem where society is constantly bending over backwards to cater to the 2% lowest performers. If you added up all the cost

This is a more general and larger problem where society is constantly bending over backwards to cater to the 2% lowest performers. If you added up all the costs of the people at the lowest extremes (by various metrics), I'd venture to guess that we could increase our prosperity (by various metric) by an order of magnitude. Example: When I started my startup, we made the decision not to hire any salesperson who wasn't proficient in using a computer (we have no IT support line). We also made the decision to not sell to any customer that couldn't figure out how to use the website (we have no telephone support). I cannot even tell you how multiplicative the benefits are. The 2% employees who couldn't use a computer or clients who couldn't use the website were responsible for 90% of the issues we had at my prior company. Everything from regulatory complaints, to lawsuits, to ad-hoc report requests, to virus infected PCs, to... the list goes on and on. Having smart people is great. Not dealing with idiots is equally important.

notJim 6y ago
> This is a more general and larger problem where society is constantly bending over backwards to cater to the 2% lowest performers. As your parent said, it's not 2%, it's more like everyone. No one is perfect all the time. More importantly, it's one thing when hiring, but are you seriously suggesting 2% of the population shouldn't be able to use Twitter or online banking or other online services? 140,000,000 people should effectively face social death because you can't be fucked to help them? This is backwards, we should be sacrificing profits and convenience to be more inclusive.
- koheripbal 6y ago
  I think we need to be honest about what the most dysfunctional bottom 1-2% are costing us. ...and it's not correct to say that "everyone is imperfect sometimes" because the correlation between people who are problems across various metrics, is high.
  - edeion 6y ago
    Would you share the plans you have in store to help them cope better with our society?

notJim 6y ago

> This is a more general and larger problem where society is constantly bending over backwards to cater to the 2% lowest performers. As your parent said, it's not 2%, it's more like everyone. No one is perfect all the time. More importantly, it's one thing when hiring, but are you seriously suggesting 2% of the population shouldn't be able to use Twitter or online banking or other online services? 140,000,000 people should effectively face social death because you can't be fucked to help them? This is backwards, we should be sacrificing profits and convenience to be more inclusive.

koheripbal 6y ago
I think we need to be honest about what the most dysfunctional bottom 1-2% are costing us. ...and it's not correct to say that "everyone is imperfect sometimes" because the correlation between people who are problems across various metrics, is high.
- edeion 6y ago
  Would you share the plans you have in store to help them cope better with our society?