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Or they just pick the view that benefits them, with no regard to how it affects others. Smart people definitely do better in a fuck you got mine economy than du

Or they just pick the view that benefits them, with no regard to how it affects others. Smart people definitely do better in a fuck you got mine economy than dumb people.

openfuture 4y ago
Or they pick the view that benefits everybody but nobody wants that because they are busy exploiting something that gives them relative advantage and don't see how they would be better off if they would have less relative advantage but better commons. Smart people have historically often been left destitute for their convictions.
User23 4y ago
Smart people do better than dumb people at everything, ceteris paribus. If they didn’t then evolution would never have selected for intelligence.
- sakras 4y ago
  I guess it depends on your definition of “doing better”, but for example in the Soviet Union the average factory worker made much more than an academic researcher, and I’d bet that academics would score better on an IQ test. So it’s definitely possible to build an economic system where lower-IQ individuals do better.
  - User23 4y ago
    I hate to be the "source please" guy, but I can't manage to craft a search query to corroborate your claim about factory workers vs academics in the USSR. Which particular five year plan are you talking about? What kind of factory work versus what kind of researcher? Given what I know about political infighting in the modern American academy though, I'd bet that the smart ones went to the politburo where they got to be the "who" and not the "whom" and it was the midwits at best who stuck around in the academy waiting to get shipped to the gulags for publishing something Stalin disliked. In other words, realizing how the system actually works instead of naively believing how it's claimed to work is just another intelligence test.

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Or they just pick the view that benefits them, with no regard to how it affects others. Smart people definitely do better in a fuck you got mine economy than du

by jackmott42 4y ago

Or they just pick the view that benefits them, with no regard to how it affects others. Smart people definitely do better in a fuck you got mine economy than dumb people.

openfuture 4y ago
Or they pick the view that benefits everybody but nobody wants that because they are busy exploiting something that gives them relative advantage and don't see how they would be better off if they would have less relative advantage but better commons. Smart people have historically often been left destitute for their convictions.
User23 4y ago
Smart people do better than dumb people at everything, ceteris paribus. If they didn’t then evolution would never have selected for intelligence.
- sakras 4y ago
  I guess it depends on your definition of “doing better”, but for example in the Soviet Union the average factory worker made much more than an academic researcher, and I’d bet that academics would score better on an IQ test. So it’s definitely possible to build an economic system where lower-IQ individuals do better.
  - User23 4y ago
    I hate to be the "source please" guy, but I can't manage to craft a search query to corroborate your claim about factory workers vs academics in the USSR. Which particular five year plan are you talking about? What kind of factory work versus what kind of researcher? Given what I know about political infighting in the modern American academy though, I'd bet that the smart ones went to the politburo where they got to be the "who" and not the "whom" and it was the midwits at best who stuck around in the academy waiting to get shipped to the gulags for publishing something Stalin disliked. In other words, realizing how the system actually works instead of naively believing how it's claimed to work is just another intelligence test.