No test measures intelligence. A test only measures you relative to the persons that wrote the test. – loosely quoting Asimov.

2007 is ancient history now. It is an interesting graph that one might correlate with a lack of meritocratic structure in society, but I’m on the low end cause I say this without looking up and reading the study. Pretty pictures evoke emotional blabbering bias and all that.

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, agreed.

    Even America’s sweet heart Taylor Swift. She’s a billionaire and her groupies wind up paying $1300 to see a show. Then I heard she’s writing a book. I mean how much do you need? She could be doing world tours for free, subsidizing ticket prices, I don’t know, starting up a competitive company to Ticketmaster.

    Elon Musk levels of income could friggin cure diseases or hunger or something or at least make a huge dent. Think about it. If he liquidated his entire net worth and gave up on his Nazi empire building he could use $490B on a good cause and STILL be a billionaire.

    There was one guy though. I forgot his name. He signed that pact that Warren Buffett created where those who signed, pledged to give away all or most of there wealth. I think like two did it after they died but this one guy gave it all away while he was (is?) alive.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
      22·
      2 days ago

      Billionares would have no bearing whatsoever on the same type of research being discussed. See my other comment.

      • Professorozone@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, I disagree with your assessment. You’re acting like oh there are only a few of them, but they control like 90% of the wealth in the world. How many billions of dollars do you think go into a single research topic? I’d also like to point out that it’s uber rich people who also make the decisions. I can’t prove that corporations prefer NOT to have a cure for diseases, because they make more money treating them, but I’m pretty sure IF they do, it ain’t a poor person making that decision.

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
          2·
          2 days ago

          For this research it doesn’t matter how much wealth they control if it’s not even a suburb sized group of people globally who are billionaires, median income for ethical vs inethical groups would probably not move any statistically significant amount

            • ryannathans@aussie.zone
              11·
              2 days ago

              I know you want to complain about unethical billionaires but the point here is about looking for a trend between ethics and income, not prevalence of unethical behaviour amongst billionaires