NooPogodi
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Apr 2, 2026 7:36 PM
NooPogodi
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icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
I've got a lot of people I'm never going to forgive. I've had one recently come to me and tell me they're sorry they voted for Trump three times and I said great. Then they asked if we're cool and I said sure, just as soon as they give me the past decade of my life back. Until then they can fuck off.
JAPONfan
I blame the fact that my grandparents and my father eaten the granulate of "being a decent human".
NooPogodi
I blame my parents for having me
nachosyndicate
Ever notice how the stupid people get promoted to middle management? The boss isn't always looking for intelligence. Often, they want someone who won't challenge them or make them look bad.
Potatomanbynight
It's more like, the smartest people are best used as a SME. Managers dont need to be great at anything to be successful, they just need to be good enough.
Not sure what OP means by successful, but if its title, then meh. If its pay? Then thats a personal failing. Generally, people dont make their deserved pay because they either dont understand how to get paid their value, or they lack the ability to be confrontational about it.
SavageDrums
Business school teaches people to be shortsighted idiots, yet we've decided that business school grads schools be in charge of everything.
Because the wealthy are in charge, and that's what makes them wealthier.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
The secret ingredient is crime.
whereismymind86
crime and sociopathy.
0RocketCat0
Some folks just want it more, while simultaneously being the beneficiaries of good luck, such as being in the right place at the right time, having wealthy parents, or donald trump getting reelected specifically so his friends and "friends" can make a little scratch off the taxpaying public.
Dannoboyo
Priorities.
shameofslate
“Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are even stupider than that.”
— George Carlin
keyblader1985
Because confidence counts for a lot. Stupid people don't understand how stupid they are, so they possess boundless confidence. Even when they're wrong it makes them bolder and more charismatic on the surface.
MorgulTheFriendlyDrelb
That would be me. I once applied for a highly paid IT job because I was too stupid to understand that I did not have the skills to do it. I didn't deliberately lie at the interview, I just answered questions about a completely different application that had the same name. I got the job but then, luckily, the direction of the project changed and I did not have to do what they had hired me for. I was then given a much simpler role. But the contract had been signed so I kept the salary.
TChallaVanDam
Haha, I feel like you might be thinking of one person in particular.
SavageDrums
Millions. Virtually every business school graduate fits this description.
keyblader1985
I wasn't, but it definitely hits the nail on the head
readbackmonkey
Smart people avoid risk - you don't take dumb risks because you see the downside, stupid people have no doubt they'll succeed so they plow ahead - so what you see is a survivor bias. Like people that win the lottery.
pareidoliaperson
Why is it always old people who win the lottery?
Badprenup
They usually have less expenses (or they care less about the expenses they do have) and have less to keep themselves occupied, so they gamble more than others do.
peosratta
They are cheating, just exploit others and you'll be exactly where they are.
nasukkin
Turns out that contemporary metrics of success are moreso tied to antipathy rather than intelligence.
quietwalker
So, so much of life is just coincidence. Skill, ability, intelligence and dedication can make a big difference, but it's completely random whether you're given the opportunity to profit from them.
There's no guarantee of success, and there's no situation where you're guaranteed of failure either, but you know, statistically, failure is waaaay more likely.
r0b0tc0rpse
Skill issue.
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Heredity.
NooPogodi
shameofslate
It sure is, sir.
Tolocamp
Most "success" is based on being born to the right parents. The security of being wealthy through inheritance even if you fail at everything lets you take more risks and the networking of wealthy families provide the rest.
That is why obviously retarded, inbred imbeciles can still be successful. That is why 70% or even more of the "leaders" everywhere are just the degenerated nepo-babies of some wealthy family. Creating a subculture of incompetence, that rejects actual competence.
shalafi71
First part is what kicks my ass. Until working at an employment/payroll firm and then experiencing COVID, I thought most people were reasonably smart. When I saw just how dumb most of our applicants were, as in illiterate, and how poorly we reacted to COVID, my estimation of my fellow Americans tanked.
SavageDrums
Okay, but that's an intentional, systemic thing caused by the deliberate defunding of public education to make stupider, more controllable voters.
You could fix this in a generation by funding universal public education instead of funding bombs to blow up schools half a world away.
shalafi71
Oh I am aware! Just posted about watching my wife teach in the Philippines. A preschool teacher has to have a 4-yr. degree and keep up with continuing ed. She has 4 dozen certs. Their 3yos. are starting what we started at 6yo. in the 70s. Every school she's worked at pays min. wage and won't allow her to teach anything, only babysit.
BrokenAnimal
Intelligence isn't as marketable as one might think...
NooPogodi
If only, right?
TungstenOrbital
I'm the same
whereismymind86
capitalism is built to filter out good people, and for bastards to fail upwards.
Cashmoneybadger
Being stupid and being brave is pretty much the same thing. Doing something despite risks
Exyr
Being brave is about knowing and accepting the risk and doing it anyway its not just blindly rushing in and luckily surviving.
NooPogodi
I'm braveish. Also slightly dumb. Mostly funny.
ChadMaxxington
It's just because your vision of "successful" is theirs
CrumpetsWithHoneyAreCrumpetsWithBeeVomit
Amen.
pareidoliaperson
How can you squash 10 influencers in one hit!?
A: Send a drone to Dubai.
SunnyCameron
Wealth often isn’t about intelligence, it’s about ambition paired with a lack of empathy.
rubypilgrim
Connections and timing matter. The Airbnb guys started with an apartment and a sofa. Lack of empathy isn't a factor. Lots of poor people lack empathy - money and power + insulation from consequences seems to reduce empathy and amplify our worst characteristics. The corporate model seems to generate a pipeline for that disease.
wickerandcork
Don’t forget birth lottery
AngelBunny8888
And luck, lots of luck
lordofthegoats
don't forget connections!
rebelft
It's actually mostly about birth lottery. Stupid rich is more likely to be rich than intelligent poor. Rich families have so many doors open to them automatically while for poor it's an uphill struggle all life.
Snooj
And way more often it is about inherited generational wealth and position.
curialis
And generally a lack of oversight
TChallaVanDam
Important point.
somethingstupidandclever
Yes, but i think more importantly it's about one's proximity to wealth.
Pelican3
Actually so much of a person's success or failure is completely out of their hands. Its predominantly random. Read "The Drunkards Walk How Randomness Rules our Lives" Leonard Mlodinow
BrokenAnimal
And inheritance. 60% of multimillionaires inherited a bunch of money, and it's always easier to make money if you have money.
LadyCritCat
Easiest way to become a millionaire is to be born a billionaire
SOLARvsFACISM
And a reminder that Jeff Bezos is not considered someone who inherited wealth even though Amazon started with a $245,573.00 loan from his parents in 1995 and neither is Mark Zuckerberg, whose parents offered to buy him a McDonald's franchise. Lots of suce3ssful entrepreneurs like this do take risks, but have a MASSIVE family safety net if they fail.
BrokenAnimal
Exactly. If a normal person takes a risk like that, they can do it once if they are lucky, and if that fails, they are done.
If you come from a rich family, you can try multiple times, or prop up your failure until it works.
NooPogodi
If I was more of an asshole, I could be so rich.....
ontarioOT
Might I suggest grifting off of right-wing lunatics? It looks pretty lucrative, as long as you don't have any morals.
theworldcouldbeflat
Lottery winners prove this.
a1b3117
It always makes me wonder, if I could rip off just assholes and MAGAts,. would I feel like an asshole?
SunnyCameron
You don’t usually see rich people with a lot of friends
Autittuderp
They mistake business associates for friends all the time. When people are nice to you bc they feel they benefit from it as opposed to being kind bc they genuinely enjoy your company...it can be felt if you have any depth of character.
NooPogodi
I'd rather have friends
VagabondEngineer
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UristImiknorris
Well there's yer problem.
MuffinProof
How do I have neither?
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
And self-respect. Those guys have none.