There is nothing wrong per-se with being a midwit; most people are midwits and I never said they have “no prospects”. What I take issue with is the kind of idi

There is nothing wrong per-se with being a midwit; most people are midwits and I never said they have “no prospects”. What I take issue with is the kind of idiocracy you get when experts are identified according to “an uninformed person’s idea of an expert” rather than actual expertise. Bureaucracies’ ideas of expertise are usually “objective” like a degree or certification. The thing about degrees and certifications is that they are not nearly as difficult to get or indicative of knowledge/intelligence as an average person thinks they are. Especially with regard to more practical degrees like business and engineering, they simply cannot really teach you the same kinds of things you learn from actually working in the field.