The problem with Super-inteligent people is, that once they get out of primary school, they can spend their entire lifes completelly surrounded by above-average people.
And after +40 years they get to write a low on how to guide people as dumb as they can no longer immagine.
Super smart people tend to have money. They will rub elbows with people that have it. A lot of those people will be smart. But some will have inherited. Also they will have employees / subordinates. No way they can avoid stupidity.
@nerdman
stupid? yes. But not the retarded street level people. The sub-80s live so far from them, that most intellectuals actually start believing, that IQ doesn't exist.
@nerdman
Yes, but supermarket employees do not become part of your social circle. You know nothing about them.
Yeah... But... There's some way of keeping them in line. I mean. Think Amazon. I doubt warehouse workers are going to be Einstein level supergeniuses. You got to have ways to organize it.
Hell. Think the army. To be fair I think the US army rejects you if your IQ is under 83 because at that point you can't be expected to follow orders reliable.
@nerdman
I am sorry, but I think we are talking about different topics. I wasn't trying to descring that dumb leople cannot be controled, but the reason, why the supposedly smart people don't uderstand problems of common people.
Our government is taking time during crysis to choose a national bird FFS.
@nerdman @LukeAlmighty I bet you know wrong source of the phrase "let them eat cake."
Um. In the version I know, some french queen that later got her head chopped off got told that the peasant were revolting becaus there was no bread. And so she, not knowing anything resembling reality said, "Let them eat cake."
Not unlike the shit that that antiwork tranny talked about not working.
@zatrsakr @nerdman @LukeAlmighty fake history hunter has come over to Mastodon but I can’t find the account…
@LukeAlmighty @zatrsakr @nerdman Hey, that link worked. How did you do this? Why was i having so much trouble?
Oh! Well, a rich person can understand the problems of poor people as well as poor people can understand the problems of rich people.
You know the source of the phrase "let them eat cake."
I just don't think that the separation between people is smart / stupid. It's rich / poor or powerful / powerless. Thougrh there is a correlation between all those things.