Quite. I've often wondered how different I would be if I was born to a higher higher (affluenza) or lower (government assistance) family.
We should make a point of getting people out of mud huts and away from mob mentality though. That's just good world building.
Or we can make another Uber for Buzzfeed. Get the top 10 cutest kittens EVAR delivered to your door in 20 minutes or less or you get free toppings next time.
It seems to me people choose their own actions. When enough choose badly, the society as a whole decays.
The dating world is full of monkeys. Baristas, out of work actors, "office managers," bartenders, literal starving artists, set designers who make $15k/year for working 60 hours a week all year, .... (We're talking "this is what they do" people, not goodwill hunting "unlimited potential" people who turn into rocket scientists at the drop of at hat.)
Imagine you're a YC person: Altman or Dallas or Quinto or whoever they have these days. At what point in a relationship does it get annoying not being able to share the upper parts of what you are and what you do? Sure, you can always commiserate about the weather and the latest TV shows or what your 188th level Orc Paladin did in WoW this week, but does that give meaning to "high achievers?"
That's the lanterns in the dark versus the rabble of reality tv watchers.
(Cutting off some replies here: yes, there's a continuous gradient between "only-a-barista" and "only-a-serial-billionare," but there are levels people seems to get chunked into fairly easily after talking with them for 5 seconds to 5 minutes. yes, some of these positions are due to life circumstances and coincidences along the way, but that's the life we end up with—we can't all go back in time to be born to the mother of Bill Gates.)
Really?
People in Hollywood date other famous people. Successful people tend to go after other successful people. As much as generic 16 year old Jessica in Montana wishes, One Direction is not going to swoop out of the sky and date her.
It's of course nowhere near accurate or absolute those positions hold, but, social spheres (and intimate octahedrons) form around people of like interests and abilities.
There will always be a romcom to say otherwise though. CEO meets hostess. President of USA meets stripper. College professor meets checkout person at Target.
Out of interest, how would you label the axis?
>half the world is still monkeys with sticks
These categories are not exclusive. Middle-class professionals are the authors of most of the horrors of the modern world. Just because you can do math and/or program for a smartphone doesn't mean that you don't have utterly irrational and/or repugnant views.
>the monkeys inevitably get advanced technologies without the wisdom or maturity required to use it responsibly
They "get" them because middle-class people sell them for profit, or give them away because they agree with what the "monkeys" are doing.
We're all apes anyway, not monkeys.
I know we're getting way off-topic here, but this is a compelling argument that the "apes, not monkeys" thing is kind of silly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-dMqEbSk8
Wait, that doesn't clear anything up.
Also see: UK football hooliganism, SF/LA sports riots, SF/Berkeley injustice riots, and YC circles making rich well known people richer and weller knowner.
Yup. Just because we're not talking about shared grandmothers in villages doesn't mean we're more sophisticated. The brutal kill-the-infidel groups can form anywhere scared people with low self esteem get grouped together. "If I hurt these people, others will think highly of me!" Except here, the weak low self esteem people have electricity, chemicals, and guns instead of sticks and stones.
Sorry for any hurts.
Urban Dictionary barely mentions the word monkey may be racist. It's 3x more likely to be slang for girl parts.
Oh, well, if Urban Dictionary says it, it must be true.
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How that works? Go there. Simply, go to the most impoverished place in the world that you can stand, and teach what you know.
This isn't so hard as it sounds, but for some reason is also (at the same time) one of the most difficult things in all the world for humankind to do.
Same as it ever was.