Anybody below 80, we're basically putting on a society-wide puppet show to pretend their contributions matter, because to do otherwise would potentially foster violent resentment.
We have a difficult path ahead. How do we show due reverence to the value of all human life, when there is no dignity to be found in work? How do we make people whose jobs can be replaced by a server with a few graphics cards in it feel like their contributions are valuable?
If we don't find a way to do this, we're going to be failing our fellow man in a catastrophic way.
There used to be value in less skilled work. This societap unbalance has been deliberately destroyed by the government and corps working together to destroy our industrial base to turn us into a "service economy". When they brag about that term, what they're actually doing is laughing about making a perpetual underclass of corporate slaves by filling the economy with shit jobs.
There's always going to be a need for physically demanding jobs require some level of skill, and it doesn't take a very high IQ to do those jobs. Where lower IQ people tend to have problems is abstract thinking. Such a person might be perfectly capable of doing math required for their work because they do it over and over without having to apply the concepts to new things, even if they would never understand it in a more theoretical context. The problem is those jobs will always have shitty pay as long as we have hordes pouring across the Rio Grande looking for a handout.
Anybody below 80, we're basically putting on a society-wide puppet show to pretend their contributions matter, because to do otherwise would potentially foster violent resentment.
We have a difficult path ahead. How do we show due reverence to the value of all human life, when there is no dignity to be found in work? How do we make people whose jobs can be replaced by a server with a few graphics cards in it feel like their contributions are valuable?
If we don't find a way to do this, we're going to be failing our fellow man in a catastrophic way.
There used to be value in less skilled work. This societap unbalance has been deliberately destroyed by the government and corps working together to destroy our industrial base to turn us into a "service economy". When they brag about that term, what they're actually doing is laughing about making a perpetual underclass of corporate slaves by filling the economy with shit jobs.
There's always going to be a need for physically demanding jobs require some level of skill, and it doesn't take a very high IQ to do those jobs. Where lower IQ people tend to have problems is abstract thinking. Such a person might be perfectly capable of doing math required for their work because they do it over and over without having to apply the concepts to new things, even if they would never understand it in a more theoretical context. The problem is those jobs will always have shitty pay as long as we have hordes pouring across the Rio Grande looking for a handout.