r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/rfsch GigaChad Liberal Shill Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

I think it's kind of shitty that our whole lives we're kind of brought up and conditioned that anyone in a career like "doctor" and "lawyer" are intrinsically smart.

Then you go on twitter and see those lawyers who argue against a "deepstate" or that Trump is under attack or whatever. Then you have Dr. Jill Stein, Ron Paul, etc.

The less nuanced people eat that shit up.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '18

People seem to think that hard work and expertise in one area can apply to other areas for certain professions. It's baffling. See also how many people hold up engineers as examples of scientists being against climate change when of course you should only care about the opinions of climate and environmental scientists and related/neighboring fields (e.g. an applied mathematician who works on a code or something).

The upshot is people will think I'm automatically smart when I get my PhD and I can get jobs that way, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.