[ExI] today's news

[MB]

On Mon, November 1, 2021 11:15, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> "Let's punish the winners."

(snips)

> The gifted and talented will succeed anyway in all probability.  The only
> real victims here are people who want our society to be run rationally.
>
>

... unless the gifted and talented are so bored or turned off that they go
to bad behaviour or drugs.  I saw that with one of my kids... even in a
select school, bored bored bored.  Near the top of the class, scholarships
to college - bored bored bored.  Dropped out, never finished school, doing
manual & non-technical work now age 40s.    At least working & currently
self-supporting, for which I am exceedingly grateful.

Regards,
MB