| ▲ | hax0ron3 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
That may be the case. Also, a man's intelligence is usually not evenly distributed among all of his different psychological facets. One can be extremely smart in some ways and extremely incompetent in other ways. So some of the global elite might actually be extremely smart when it comes to a few key things and total morons in other ways. If your theory is correct and the global elite really isn't significantly smarter than the average population then the next question is, how are they maintaining their spots against smarter competitors? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | UncleMeat 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> If your theory is correct and the global elite really isn't significantly smarter than the average population then the next question is, how are they maintaining their spots against smarter competitors? This question is only difficult to answer if we believe that our system operates on merit. A system that operates on power, connections, and backroom favors happily maintains the status of mediocre people. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | joe_mamba 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
>how are they maintaining their spots against smarter competitors? Blackmail, lying, cunning, manipulation, backstabbing, machiavellianism, etc, You need to be intelligent at these, above all else. | |||||||||||||||||
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