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  • Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling

    You’re so stuck in a capitalist mindset that you view people being “unemployable” as a personal failure on their part, rather than a success of society as a whole…

    Were you out there screaming “think of the children” and “they can do anything they put their mind to” when people banded together to say maybe 7 year old children don’t have to work in the fucking coal mines anymore?


  • I think the issue is the study treated it as a binary thing…

    Handedness isn’t binary, very few things are when talking about human anatomy.

    Like, 4 wheel drive is an equal 50/50 split. Then obviously full front/rear drive.

    But “all wheel drive” can be anything from 80/20 to 60/40, or theoretically any random ratio.

    So while people who prefer their left hand. There’s a difference between a sleight preference and someone who’s right hand is so useless it’s easier to hold a guitar upside down.

    Those people at the extreme end may be more creative when isolated out as a subgroup







  • Last names weren’t really a thing until very recently in human history.

    That’s why a lot of last names are places or jobs.

    You were Chris the Farmer, or Chris from Cleveland. And when your king wanted a last name to tax you more accurately, you likely didn’t give a fuck and just said whatever.

    But the thing is people would say names/jobs in different languages.

    An immigrant from Germany who spoke mostly German would say “My name is John Deutsch”. if they were fluent in English they may say “My name is John German”.

    Same guy. Describing himself the same way, just in two different languages.

    Fo Colombus specifically, that’s not even his name in his native language. It was Columbo, which meant Dove and given mostly to orphans, but at least his dad had the same name. Whenever last names became standard, Columbus’s oldest living direct ancestor was an orphan

    So like, it’s not asking why just the places named after him are different, it’s why he had different names.

    And the answer is people just really didn’t care that much about names until very recently.