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I would think that would be an indicator not that the quantity of smart people is bad but that we live in a society built for stupid people (which implies it wa

• luckylion 6y ago
  If you simplify it: if you have a lot of architects but very few builders, you're not going to get a lot done. That doesn't mean that society was made for or by the builders. Since academics tend to want to eat as well, you still need somebody to provide the food. If all you have is educated people for whom food production is beneath their qualifications, you're going to end up with starving academics lamenting the cruelty of the universe not providing food to them.
  • devenblake 6y ago
    In the absence of uneducated laborers to do the jobs nobody wants to do, we can get the educated laborers to automate these tasks.
    • luckylion 6y ago
      That would be people you'd need though, not people that get "produced" in larger numbers than desirable. A million more engineers will be great. A million more art history majors not so much.
      • username90 6y ago
        If every manual laborer had an engineering degree I bet a ton of it will get automated really quickly. If every paper pusher had a computer science degree I bet a ton of it would get automated really quickly as well. When liberal arts majors do low skill work they start clamoring for low skill immigration so they get people they can manage.
  • imtringued 6y ago
    The problem with this analogy is that there is no shortage of uneducated people in other countries. If immigration or export is possible then uneducated people in rich nations don't stand a chance in the first place.