or supply useless, misleading context--"Look at Thatcher! Look at Sherry Lansing! why aren't all women prime minister of Britain and running Paramount?!"
'Vast majority of CEOs/prisoners" is such a wonderful faux datapoint, as if becoming a CEO or prisoner arises from a flawless objective process for determining the right people for those roles.
Curious if they have considered the overlap - prisoners who were CEOs or CEOs who should be prisoners but are not because we don’t prosecute white collar crime? 🧐
I feel like any amount of pushback that relates to their own demographic criteria in the negative way makes them cave. like, do you think height is correlated with intelligence? what about lack of male pattern baldness. five seconds later they got their pitchforks out for the heightriarchy
I’ve known a number of smart, successful CEOs, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, and exceptional intelligence is NOT a common feature. Drive, ego, delegation, political skills, connections to capital, yes. Extreme intelligence, not so much.
Stupid person’s idea of a smart person.
There’s a whole body of feminist scholarship that explores this dynamic with great depth. Why cleave to Charles Murray unless he’s a guiding thinker for Matty’s POV?
their argument then becomes that our context arises from these same "natural" hierarchies of race and gender. they will never admit that this is ultimately apologia for millennia of violence.
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The reason they were all men is because it was literally the rules of the time.
What am I saying? Of course they haven’t.
Stupid person’s idea of a smart person.
For bigger businesses, it’s navigating corporate politics.