Right—comparative advantage and all that. The problem then though, is that we end up with a large population of the mentally obese, growing increasingly distrustful of the intellectual elite who are supposed to do the thinking for them, because they represent a different youth tribe. We probably want to be encouraging intellectual effort for it’s own sake in the way we try to encourage sports—even if you’re not an athlete, you should take pride in running every day before work or whatever.
Right—comparative advantage and all that. The problem then though, is that we end up with a large population of the mentally obese, growing increasingly distrustful of the intellectual elite who are supposed to do the thinking for them, because they represent a different youth tribe. We probably want to be encouraging intellectual effort for it’s own sake in the way we try to encourage sports—even if you’re not an athlete, you should take pride in running every day before work or whatever.