OT: Evaluating an Application

[Laura Brody]

The collective IQ has already dropped. I am 57 years old and people weren't
this stupid when I was a kid. I talked to older relatives and they all
agree with me 100%. It isn't my imagination.

Parenting is a lost art. They don't want you to discipline your kids. Or
make them earn money or privileges. "Everyone is a winner" with a
participation trophy.  Ken and I aren't perfect, but we never had to bail
out one of our kids or try to talk our daughters out of pole dancing as a
career choice. I have had people who have kids in jail, on drugs, etc tell
me that my parenting stinks. It took a massive effort on my part to not
point out their parenting failures (they were a family friend, so I had to
bite my lip. It was not an argument that I could win. Even if I won, there
would be a massive fallout.).



Laura Brody

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:49 PM Fairlight via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 03:34:25PM -0500, Laura Brody via Filepro-list
> thus spoke:
> > I have been using "good, cheap, or fast; pick any two" as a test. If the
> > customer "gets it" and picks which two are most important, I move forward
> > with giving him/her a quote. If I get a blank stare and a "I want all 3"
> > demand, it is time to cut them loose. The potential customer is too
> stupid
> > to deal with and will cost me 10x in aggravation and Tums than I will
> make
> > in profit. Red flag. Warning Will Robinson! Abort, abort, abort! In the
> > past, I have ignored this red flag and I got burned every single time. I
> > don't care what my cash flow is at the moment, this customer is going to
> > make me wish that I never got into the computer business. They are going
> to
> > drive me nuts, work extra hard to clean up a mess I will warn them about
> > and as a cherry on top, they will try to stiff me with the bill when
> > everything goes to hell because I did it the way they insisted that I do
> > it.  Just not worth it.
>
> 100% agreed.  I've learned to cut people loose, unless I am utterly
> desperate, which (blessedly) hasn't happened in a decade or so.  And even
> then, I would be second-guessing that decision...
>
> > I recently heard about a movie called "Idiocracy" by Mike Judge. It tells
> > of an average Army guy who volunteers to go into a hibernation box for a
> > year. He wakes up 500 years later. He is arrested and sent to jail. They
> > test his IQ and he is the smartest guy on the planet, by far. The movie
> > explains that smart people wait until their careers are set and the
> market
> > is good, etc. and never have kids. On the other hand, dumb people are
> > having sex with anyone that is marginally willing. Our example dumb guy
> has
> > 7 kids and the wife is pregnant again. "I thought you was on the pill".
> So
> > is the neighbor lady, and his other girl friend. A couple of generations
> of
> > this and we have 300+ people with an IQ below 75. I don't think that we
> > have to wait 500 years for this to happen. I peg it at 50 years or less.
>
> What makes you think it hasn't been happening for the last 30 years?
> Parenting as I knew it is formally dead.  What we have is the result, along
> with the attendant entitled brats who think the world owes them 100km-wide
> Safe Spaces.
>
> Seriously, the collective IQ seems to have dropped sharply in the last
> three decades.
>
> m->
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