>>And then there are some genuinely stupid people (or at least the best failures of educational system) who end up (or down) there just because they aren't able to get around anything requiring more complicated thinking

Yes, complicated thinking,.

Like that performed by the geniuses who invented nuclear weapons.

Let's not forget Harvard MBA Jeff Skilling, the whiz with fractions who gave us Enron, and the geniuses with calculus who gave us the smoke and mirrors of derivatives.

The engineers who designed the BP rig in the gulf are really sharp with math too.

The "failures of educational system" who land in Walmart can't blow up the planet, drive countries into bankruptcy, or destroy an ecosystem so I give them a little slack while they somehow muddle thru.











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