I assume most people here are gainfully employed. Many are in a trade or skilled profession that no one could just walk on and start doing without significant training. And yet... **A lot of you are clearly just low IQ.** I know because I talk with you in the comments here on Poal and I read the things you say and poke at the reasoning you use to justify those opinions. The takes are bad and the thought process behind them is even worse in many cases. But many of the low IQ people here seem to carry themselves as if their opinion is important and carries weight. Do you think it's possible that being useful in the production of some kind of goods and services, being *skilled*, gives these people an inflated sense of their own mental abilities? Keep in mind it doesn't necessarily take great intelligence to be a skilled laborer. There is a lot of training, systems, repetition, that helps skilled workers achieve good results. And most people working in skilled fields still need to be managed. Even in cases where the pay is high, the marketability of the skill doesn't necessarily need to correlate with high intellect. I'm not trying to insult anyone specifically or downplay the need for skilled labor (which we are desperate for and is waning rapidly in western countries). I'm just wondering if doing skilled work creates an inflated sense of intelligence and if this might not be a big factor in the interaction between industrial society and social media. What are you thoughts? #####tl;dr A lot of you are dumbasses. Do you think having a job makes you feel smarter than you are?