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What if The Least Capable Among Us Ended Up in Charge?

That’s the way it is: what would change if it weren’t?

I just read a humorous and pointed overview of the comparison between rich, privileged drama students and talented, yet poor, aspiring performers by Argumentative Penguin. The takeaway? The rich drama students sucked and lacked talent and people skills, but as young adults had “failed upward” into decent-paying and even semi-prestigious jobs. The poor ones, despite their talent, hadn’t made it through to becoming professional performers. Most were working more prosaic, mundane jobs.

Everyone who’s been watching any type of video content or listening to music in recent years can see the effect of what Penguin is pointing at: as soon as we start out in school or any educational program, rich kids get most of the slots and take up most of the time and attention regardless of their abilities.

There appear to be only two valued “attributes” in this current society: money and power. Neither of those two is a direct result or a qualification for the type of hard work and talent that would make a good actor, a good singer, a good dancer —

Or a good scientist. Good physician. Good engineer. Good automobile designer. Good psychologist. Good …