Samizdat

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I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this. But I have black market jackhammers for sale (they're much better than guns).

Natural Selection??
The basic concept is that environmental conditions determine how well particular traits of organisms can serve the survival and reproduction of the organism; organisms lacking these traits might die before reproducing, or be less fecund. As long as environmental conditions remain the same, or similar enough that these traits continue to be adaptive, such traits will become more common within populations.

the obvious answer to this is that being bright is not a requirement to being powerful/successful. in fact being a little stupid helps understand your average joe better because then you're almost at his/her level. yes, level. there ARE different levels of rationality. people are good at different things, not everyone can be a football player or a politician.
get over it already.

and i could be wrong.

Don't forget that the theory of evolution applies to theories and natural rules, as well as people. Were Darwin around today, he would be the first one to post a comment on the "Theory of Office Space Selection." Briefly, this new theory proposes an inverse relationship between the amount of work a person does and the amount of rewards and promotions they receive. Especially if their name happens to be Michael Bolton.

Another point: I hear people griping about their managers being less knowledgable than their employees, which is a fair cry. but think about it, managers train to MANAGE their employees, the employees are trained to carry out a more specific task. you can't expect the CEO (if there is one) of boeing to know how to repair an aircraft engine.

Just a point that occurred to moi.

Ok, before all of this gets misconstrued and all of that rubbish let me clarify.

This matter isn't about managers. It's about people doing jobs they just aren't qualified to do. For example, the guy responsible for cleaning the toilets on the plane is now flying the plane because the pilot quit.

So, my point in all of this is that because of vacuums people with no brains are getting placed where they shouldn't be. Now, as opposed to their incompetence at getting the job done (as obvious as it is) causing them to get canned, it turns out that they get more responsibility out of default.

Yes, the rules of Darwin don't necessarily hold, but this is absolutely ludicrious!

And don't get me started on the "inverse relationship between the amount of work a person does and the amount of rewards and promotions they receive." I've got a compendium in the making for that.

Too late on the compendium... Mike Judge beat you to it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

It's a well known fact that Darwin's theory doesn't apply to human beings. This is because we have something called consciousness which animals do not. This makes us look after the weak and take care of the sick. Except in very extreme cases like war, Darwin's theory of natural selection does not hold....