Obviously people sort on intelligence into different industries. You’re looking at a paper on similar/probably-mostly-identical sorting happening between specif

Obviously people sort on intelligence into different industries. You’re looking at a paper on similar/probably-mostly-identical sorting happening between specific firms. I don’t believe everyone working in e.g. food service is dumb (nor that everyone working in adtech or HFT is smart), only that the distribution is probably quite extremely uneven. There is plenty of space for creativity and novel thinking within bureaucracies, trades, service industries, etc., and that is exactly the reason it’d be great to have a more even distribution of smart people into them. An efficient bureaucrat can navigate themselves to the right place to make a huge amount of impact on people’s actual daily lives at scale. That’s a good thing!