Intelligence vs. Money
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Interesting article that I'll read more later, but I did lol at this:
The authors also noted that the most cognitively demanding jobs, which usually attract smarter people, might not necessarily pay the most. In the U.S., for example, teachers are often thought to be underpaid for what they provide.
We've always had this irrational and religious idea that teacher quality is the primary variable in a society's education, and that's why they need to be paid more, but we've now added the idea that they also have among the most cognitively demanding jobs.
If anybody wants to claim that teachers have among the most crappy jobs, among the most demanding of patience and fortitude, I'll listen.
This did not cause me to disregard the whole article though, because I'm not a douche who looks for reasons to disregard large collections of ideas because I found one that was stupid.
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Perhaps we can lump college professors into the teacher category?
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The last bit of the article goes into "emotional intelligence" and ambition. They do say that psychopaths occupy disproportionate numbers of top positions. Not sure they could be thought to have "emotional intelligence", but maybe my definition of that is wrong. I can imagine that they can read rooms or run meetings or sensitively recite diversity dogma in front of large audiences, as well as anybody else.
Education is extremely important.
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If you ask a progressive white female, her definition of 'emotional intelligence' might be the emotional pain one feels upon hearing of the latest tragedy that befell an oppressed person at the hands of an oppressor. But I don't think that sort of 'emotional intelligence', which they will also call 'empathy', helps in the business world.
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The last bit of the article goes into "emotional intelligence" and ambition. They do say that psychopaths occupy disproportionate numbers of top positions. Not sure they could be thought to have "emotional intelligence", but maybe my definition of that is wrong. I can imagine that they can read rooms or run meetings or sensitively recite diversity dogma in front of large audiences, as well as anybody else.
@Horace said in Intelligence vs. Money:
The last bit of the article goes into "emotional intelligence" and ambition. They do say that psychopaths occupy disproportionate numbers of top positions. Not sure they could be thought to have "emotional intelligence",
I think so. Since they have no empathy and they know it, they have to fake it by mimicking what they see on TV, from co-workers and shit. But they know they're faking, so they watch people very carefully to see whether or not the social levers they're pulling are working for them. If not, they just move on to something else.
They're often in higher positions because it's a stupid fact of American culture that when someone boasts about themselves or name-drops, the kinds of people who occupy higher positions have a greater tendency to consider this good currency.
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@Jolly said in Intelligence vs. Money:
Perhaps we can lump college professors into the teacher category?
That might violate the 'underpaid' category.
@Horace said in Intelligence vs. Money:
@Jolly said in Intelligence vs. Money:
Perhaps we can lump college professors into the teacher category?
That might violate the 'underpaid' category.
Add "adjunct" into the mix and the category is good again.
