No test measures intelligence. A test only measures you relative to the persons that wrote the test. – loosely quoting Asimov.
2007 is ancient history now. It is an interesting graph that one might correlate with a lack of meritocratic structure in society, but I’m on the low end cause I say this without looking up and reading the study. Pretty pictures evoke emotional blabbering bias and all that.
Yeah, I agree. I always thought if I could ask a billionaire one questions it would be, “How much is enough?” Then I realized, I know the answer to that question. There’s never enough. What a real shame. They could live so extravagantly and still do so much good with the rest, but they would rather spend it crushing people and looking down on them for some ridiculous notion that they’re world builders or something.
Bezos said in an interview that he had so much money the only thing he could really spend it on was space travel. I’m like, how about paying your employees a living wage and letting them use the toilet you asshat!