When the sanity waterline is so low, it’s easy to develop a potent sense of misanthropy.
Bryan Caplan’s writing about many people hating stupid people really affected me on this point. Don’t hate, or even resent, stupid people; trade with them! This is a straightforward consequence of Ricardo’s comparative advantage theorem. Population averages are overrated; what matters is whether the individual interactions between agents in a population are positive-sum, not where those individual agents fall relative to the population average.
When the sanity waterline is so low, it’s easy to develop a potent sense of misanthropy.
Bryan Caplan’s writing about many people hating stupid people really affected me on this point. Don’t hate, or even resent, stupid people; trade with them! This is a straightforward consequence of Ricardo’s comparative advantage theorem. Population averages are overrated; what matters is whether the individual interactions between agents in a population are positive-sum, not where those individual agents fall relative to the population average.