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Old 09-25-2016, 11:59 PM   #12427
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
Events make much more sense when you realize that many successful, powerful people are idiots with excellent social skills. Humans are focused and motivated on attaining status, and it is far easier to disassemble and pretend to competence to climb a hierarchy than to actually be that way.
Lol wut? Incompetence with technology = idiot? Incompetence with technology automatically means a pretender to any competence?

Hardly. I've known lots of people who struggle with a fax machine or programming a VCR (when those were a thing), or changing the oil on their car, or hooking up a home theater, but were smarter than you and I combined when it came to physics or economics or law. If my lawyer doesn't know how to configure a print driver it doesn't mean they're an idiot, it means they're interested in learning law stuff, not print drivers.

Unless you're talking specifically about the IT guys, then yeah.
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