If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by dylan604 on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:58PM (#18491522)

I kind of have this feeling for most of Mike Judge's stuff. I think we've all been in an Office Space situation. Being from the same part of Texas that King Of The Hill is based on, I totally know people that I could swear Judge based the characters off of for the show. At this point, Idiocracy should be moved from the comedy category and into the prophecy/documentary category.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by ido on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:54AM (#18492618)

I agree with most of your comment except Idiocracy - while sometimes funny it is a trite classist argument, already made in various form centuries ago ("the poor are inferior and reproduce quickly, ergo each generation will be lesser than the previous").

While in reality e.g. IQ score baselines keep getting adjusted to account for the fact that kids keep getting better and better scores as time goes on[0].

The world is not getting dumber and if it is there is no evidence for it and plenty against it.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by goatlover on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:28AM (#18493326)

It's as if public education, improved nutrition and healthcare, better means of travel, better communication, etc. result in making the population smarter. Who would have thought that if everyone got some of the advantages only the wealthy had in the past that things would turn out better?

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