Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "The Problem with Meritocracy - David Goodhart" video.

  1. If you were in a wheelchair you'd want someone who designs a ramp entrance option to the building. If you might get hurt you want someone who designs a place with a big enough elevator to fit a stretcher in. Some building codes are born of empathy and that's a wonderful thing.
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  2. His point is more about what we value, not whether the best are at the top is a good thing or not. Take a high IQ robotic scientist; they could not do the job a caring nurse does with special needs kids nearly as well as someone with an aptitude for it but considerably lower IQ. We put too much emphasis on strict processing-power IQ even though it's clear that some important functions of society run on a different metric.
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  3.  @borderlands6606  "Bright people with low empathy and high ambition - what could possibly go wrong?" Haha, I love the sciences but this made me laugh. The hardcore science junkies "because science" every bit as much as religious zealots "because God".
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  4. You sure you are commenting on the right video? Nepotism is directly giving a job or responsibility to your kid simply because they are your kid. That's not what this conversation is about. It's about what society values and how the bloated education system was led by government to get bloated and ridiculous.
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  5.  @costakeith9048  "Science does provide a system of morality: survival of the fittest. Nature dictates that the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must, any deviation from this norm will fail in the end." For most species, yes. That doesn't explain human neurochemistry though. Humans feel awful when they see a homeless man being beaten. Why? Strict survival of the fittest means we'd lack empathy for anything that doesn't directly benefit our survival, and that clearly isn't the case.
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  6. ​ @christopherprim1973  Lebron said he risks his life every day just walking out the door as a black man. He's great with a basketball, but not so much with probability. Perhaps amazingly rich black celebrities who aren't committing crimes are being offed at an alarming rate by racist white police and nobody told me. Perhaps not though.
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  7. The point is to make you think about what we value and why. I think there's value in that.
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