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>Stupid people are allowed to vote. ironic to say that here, where supposedly smart people say the dumbest, cringiest shit imaginable about a wide variety of t
by 4b6442477b1280b 1y ago
>Stupid people are allowed to vote.
ironic to say that here, where supposedly smart people say the dumbest, cringiest shit imaginable about a wide variety of topics.
- moomoo11 1y agoWell. Have you seen the news recently?
- ff12wq111 1y agoyou mean paywall in reddit?
- ff12wq111 1y agoExactly. Intelligence and good judgment seem to be very different things.I've seen brilliant engineers make terrible community decisions - sometimes because they're optimizing for profit or ego rather than community benefit. Maybe the real question isn't who's smart enough to participate, but how to design transparent decision-making systems regardless of external factors.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoOf one part, those who thrive in corporations must appear to drink the Flavor Aid. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair And then another part is the professional working class of privileged, moderately-to-highly educated, and brimming with ego without nuance or ambiguity while skewing to the tendencies of less wisdom, struggle, and wide-ranging life experience. There isn't much internal or external motivation towards integrity, self-improvement, or commonwealth investment. There are exceptions and they are gold.