Posted on 01/11/2024 9:26:29 AM PST by GaltMeister
The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society.
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What, you mean that forced diversity for the sake of diversity isn’t a good thing? Well, golly!
The IQ Gap is both real and significant.
We can always Google it.
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What could go wrong?
We MUST follow the science, except when the science generates inconvenient truths.
Problem is, that competency was based heavily upon a higher-education degree, while those institutions employed people who themselves were incompetent. Those incompetents began the snowball affect as education rolled down hill gaining momentum as they descended. On paper they were competent, in the real world they were over their in over heads. The results were inevitable.
If you can fix it....nobody cares about your biases, diversity goals, gender, pronouns, color or nationality. That's why you're contracted. Safe from the DEI Director and Safety guy.
$12K for an hours work using their spares. I love DEI goals in the industrial workforce. I could be busy until the day I die if I want to be. It gets worse and worse every year.
Watch the movie "Brazil" from the mid 1980's. That is exactly where we are today in our Dystopia.
Competent or Dunning - Kruger competent?
The incompetent have used the stupid to ensure that policies at all levels disincentivising meritocracy. Basically relabeling it as a “bad thing” and and even coming up with the new pejorative of “able-ism”.
As if that were an unintended consequence.
The people orchestrating this have a cadre of people in vital fields they can pull together at need to create a bubble of civilization.
The idea is to let the rest of the world fall into hellish chaos so that they accept slavery in exchange for “rescue” from the problem their enslavers caused.
Do likewise. Store real working knowledge and create groups of people who can band together. The globalists will really hate it when they find they’re not going to rule much at all.
I believe the latter played a huge role.
I first maintained and operated nuclear power plants starting in 1984. I now teach technicians how to maintain them and the leaders how to manage nuclear power plants.
Anecdotally I will testify to the truth of this. Individuals hired now are so far below the baseline and demonstrate so little aptitude for the technologies employed as to actually worry me.
To be clear there is an obvious hiring bias and it has NOTHING to do with skill or aptitude.
Hence the push for so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI).
I’d contend AI is just a more complex set of instructions in software, and more access to data.
Still, the complexity of today’s software is beyond many people’s control and understanding also. It will only get worse, until the machines really do take over...
“The idea is to let the rest of the world fall into hellish chaos so that they accept slavery in exchange for “rescue” from the problem their enslavers caused.”
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The idea is also to grow the government ever larger thereby simultaneously expanding (1) their control over us and (2) enabling more opportunities for graft and corruption.
The obvious answer is to cut down the size, power and scope of government but neither party wants to do it. To them big government is the platform that enables all their powers over us.
The Founding Fathers tried to warn us about the dangers of big government but we didn’t listen.
"Blackdog, our building #27 has no power to the forming die hydraulic pumps"
"Have you checked for power on all phases from the device to the source?"
"Well, no because our safety policy requires arc flash gear and our corporate safety manager says we could be fired for opening that cabinet"
"Nobody will do anything to you if you FIX IT!"
Yeah, but we're not certain that's the problem, so can you come look at it for us? What time can you get here?"
"Ok. Give me a PO# for the trip in."
Management comes nowhere near true problems. They remain as far away as possible until the coast is clear.
“I first maintained and operated nuclear power plants starting in 1984. I now teach technicians how to maintain them and the leaders how to manage nuclear power plants.
Anecdotally I will testify to the truth of this. Individuals hired now are so far below the baseline and demonstrate so little aptitude for the technologies employed as to actually worry me.
To be clear there is an obvious hiring bias and it has NOTHING to do with skill or aptitude.”
BTTT
Well said. I miss “old America” when people took pride in being competent and doing an excellent job.
The AI fear craze reminds me exactly if the Y2K loonies 1n the late 1990's. The jails should be filled with the little empire builders over that fiasco of lies and deception for profit.
IQ is obviously racist. So is math.
AI needs to be programmed to learn that.
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What AI can do is propagandize Deep State talking points, find dissenters to turn them over to the authorities for “re-education”, discriminate against white males in higher education and employment.
There is absolutely nothing to worry about...
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