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Reading and writing is intellectually challenging. Everyone can do it now, because we make sure to teach them to do it, and because it's necessary to live in mo
by jstanley 6y ago
Reading and writing is intellectually challenging. Everyone can do it now, because we make sure to teach them to do it, and because it's necessary to live in modern society.
- himinlomax 6y agoAlmost anyone can walk, not everyone can climb mount Everest, or even a much smaller mountain face. Bad analogies are bad.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoAre you seriously trying to claim that programming, of any useful sort, is so hard that only really smart people, presumably like yourself, can do it? Christ. I really hope the software development industry gets its ego kicked in really hard in the near future so everything can stop sucking because of elitist asshats.
- himinlomax 6y agoWell on one hand, it could be my massive ego, and on the other it could be the truth. You're the one arguing on the basis of value. I don't. Let me just ask you this; do you think that being a good enough finance trader requires a high IQ? I'm pretty sure of it, and I'm also of the opinion that what they're applying their smarts to is a net negative for society as a whole. Another question, have you read Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate?