There's a huge amount of advice that only applies if you're smart / conscientious / attractive / whatever. That necessary precondition is almost never stated when dispensing the advice.
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Advice to incels is the obvious example, but business and career advice often take this form too.
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Maybe it'd be useful for people to give advice about how to become smart / conscientious / attractive / whatever, but that would probably also rely on unstated preconditions.
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"Can you learn anything at all or at the very least force yourself to meet minimum levels of corporate-style social competence? Okay, here's how to bootstrap that into success. Oh, you can't? Well you're fucked, here's your shitty service industry job."
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I have a lot of sympathy for intractably stupid people, or people with especially bad personalities — and don't be fooled into thinking they don't exist — because there is really no way for them to excel in the current economy. (Likely it sucked for them in the past, too.)
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You know, even being a Starbucks barista or whatever has a pretty high barrier to entry.https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann/status/996275208896987136 …
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🤖 Sonya Mann 🎀Verified account @sonyaellenmann"Can you learn anything at all or at the very least force yourself to meet minimum levels of corporate-style social competence? Okay, here's how to bootstrap that into success. Oh, you can't? Well you're fucked, here's your shitty service industry job."Show this thread3 replies 3 retweets 47 likesShow this thread -
If you want a picture of the future, imagine neurotypicals blithely telling various types of mentally ill and neurodivergent people that One Weird Trick™ will fix their problems — forever.
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weird it seems to me like it is, and is becoming more so, neurodiverse folx telling neurotypicals this
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"have you tried… *not* being neurotypical, sweetie"
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"what do you mean you cant systematically adjust your incentives sharon"
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"well, i'll have to update my priors for *that*. oh. oh, uh, i have to go, sharon."
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