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Have you ever had to tell someone that 
they are best suited to a subservient 

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slash blue collar lifestyle because they
don't have any semblance of brilliance?

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Okay.
Well I want to take issue with the 

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formulation of that question.
Although I think it's a perfectly 

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reasonable question.
That's Jen Swan.

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Don't be thinking that a blue collar 
lifestyle is necessarily subservient.

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I mean,
first of all,

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you can be a trades person and now it's 
a really good career choice as far as 

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I'm concerned.
It's,

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it's very,
very valuable in,

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you know,
good plumbers are rare and good 

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carpenters are rare and good brick 
layers are rare and they're so useful.

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I mean,
I do a lot of renovation work.

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I've done an awful lot of renovation 
work on all the places that I've,

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I've lived in and I've learned to do a 
fair bit of construction and automotive 

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body work and all those sorts of things 
and I really liked doing it and you 

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know,
there's,

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they're blue collar life is not 
necessarily subservient at all because 

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you can be master of your trades domain 
and be unbelievably economically useful 

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and productive and creative and 
independent and autonomous.

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And so there's,
there's nothing necessarily subservient 

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about that.
Um,

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now if you're thinking more about about,
let's say life at the low end of a 

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restaurant,
but even there,

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if you're a conscientious person and 
you're careful and you and you're awake 

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and you treat the people around you well
and you do your job properly,

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there's also room for advancement in the
private sphere.

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There's no reason to assume whatsoever 
that merely because you don't have the 

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intellectual horsepower to work well in 
the Abd,

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in that in the domain of rapidly 
shifting abstractions that your life has

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to be a secondary quality or,
or,

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or opportunity.
I don't see that at all.

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And,
and there is endless opportunity in the 

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trades and,
and I can,

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in Toronto for example,
there's a chronic shortage of 

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tradespeople and there's always a 
shortage of qualified people for every 

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occupation.
So,

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um,
if I have to tell someone that they're 

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best suited to a blue collar lifestyle,
I wouldn't feel bad about it.

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I might say to them,
well,

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look,
you know,

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um,
you know,

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let's assume you're talking to someone 
who has an Iq of 100,

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which is the Iq of the average high 
school graduate.

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You might say,
well look,

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you know,
um,

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unless you're super conscientious,
a,

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a career in something like law is 
probably not your best bet because 

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you're going to be competing with people
who have iqs that are like 30 points 

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higher than yours or 25 points higher 
than yours.

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And if you really work yourself to 
death,

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you might be able to main maintain 
competitiveness in that domain,

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but you're going to be working at a 
powerful disadvantage because the people

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that you're competing with,
for example,

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are going to be way faster than you 
verbally.

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They're going to be able to read faster,
into reason,

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verbally,
faster and and all of that,

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and it might be better to pick a a,
a,

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an ambition that's more in keeping with 
the quality of your temperament and your

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intelligence to to put it bluntly so 
that you can be,

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but that doesn't mean that your success 
has to be limited and it it.

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It also doesn't mean that I'm in 
elevating intelligence to to the 

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platform of the ultimate moral ideal 
because the relationship between 

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intelligence and moral ideal is zero.
There is no relationship between them at

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all.
Intelligence is a,

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is a capacity,
let's say that can be put to ill use 

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just as well as to good use and there's 
nothing intrinsically better about smart

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people.
They might be more useful for certain 

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things if they're oriented towards the 
good,

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but there's absolutely.
There's no shortage of opportunity in 

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the working class end of the end of the 
world and I can certainly understand 

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often why people might prefer that to.
To the endless miasma you might say 

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chaotic,
Miasma of complex abstract jobs.

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One of the problems with those sorts of 
jobs is that you're never done.

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It never finished.
There's always more work than you can 

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possibly do.