@hecubian_devil When you say “actually-smart,” you mean people who are agreeable and conscientious—especially agreeable—not just intelligent. And you would say that, because you’re a woman.
@hecubian_devil When you say “actually-smart,” you mean people who are agreeable and conscientious—especially agreeable—not just intelligent. And you would say that, because you’re a woman.
@hecubian_devil I don’t have a chip on my shoulder about grade school because I am an adult with adult problems now. But I was (am) smart and disagreeable, and I was a hellraiser.
@SlumRNA_Dog I claim that. I was a highly intelligent but disruptive kid. I got in fights with other kids, enjoyed violating rules that seemed silly to me, and was just openly rude and contemptuous toward most teachers.
@OnisModsMuckd@PositivFuturist The number of people able and willing to do janitorial work is typically larger than the number who can do highly specialized and high-stakes technical or managerial work. The supply of potential workers is greater, so the wage is lower. Basically anyone can clean things.
@SlumRNA_Dog I won’t bore you with my life story or try too hard to convince you that I’m smart. But I have degrees in math and economics (even though I hated a lot of things about university as well as earlier school) and I was a member of Mensa for a while.
@AdamPugh@Ritchie14035531 If you want wages to rise, you need to either make the company/economy more productive (thereby increasing the demand for labour), make the potential workers more productive, or decrease the number of people in the labour market.