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I suppose it is just going to get worse and worse. We will see run away selection if women continue to choose arrogance over substance.

• gcheong 17y ago
  An arrogantocracy?
• nostrademons 17y ago
  Well, usually what happens is that there's some cataclysmic event where reality intervenes and says "Uh, no, you actually don't know what you're talking about." Then all the arrogant folks die off (or permanently lose credibility) and get replaced by folks who were right all along but were more quiet about it. We're seeing this in the newspaper industry (all the sensationalist, content-free papers are dying off because we can get sensationalist, content-free news free off the Internet) and the financial industry (all the folks who thought unlimited leverage and perpetual debt spending was a good thing are getting squeezed mighty hard by deflation, even though the government is doing its best to bail them out). Meanwhile, geekdom is becoming increasingly sexier, as women realize that geeks have the goods and the suits just have the sparkle.
  • DenisM 17y ago
    >usually what happens is that there's some cataclysmic event Don't look now, but the whole of economy is not in a great shape.
• aswanson 17y ago
  Those selections come back to bite them in the ass ungodly hard, though. They usually get abused and/or dumped (post pregrancy) by such chaps, so there is a dampening effect on this selection for the progeny as they are raised without the support of a caring father.