I frequently find myself being a midwit by striving to avoid direct confrontation and the risk of offending a friend or associate, tempering my words and opinions in an effort to be ‘reasonable.’ I’m getting over it. When confronted with opinions or judgements with which I vehemently disagree, I am unabashedly voicing my dissent and refusing to censor my opinions for fear of ruffling someone’s feathers.
Had a friend until the election and one thing I noticed was their constant reposting of videos online. Something I never used to because of what people might say or think. But ever since then, I have been reposting anything that strikes as having that rare commodity of common sense. Oh, and am even reposting those humorous vids more often too; never know, might help somebody else make it through the day. So that’s one way I’m trying to break out of the midwit zone.
I wrote a couple years back about how "Credentialism can also be very easily taken to absurd extremes. Two recent examples were diversity-hire Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson saying she could not determine what a woman is without first consulting a biologist, and Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz saying she would need to defer to an “Education Expert™” on whether gay porn is appropriate in kindergarten classrooms...Where the Laptop Class believes that credentialism is the sole path to wisdom, the Physical Class gives much greater weight to what Nassim Taleb calls Skin In The Game. "
The false Class-sorting female-meritless BS-jobs in HR department that Man-hating abusing man-debasing Commie-Level destructive Credentialism mentioned reminded me that time before Toxic Sick destroying abusing poison-vomit valued womanhood was hired and advanced over far better men, men that could be trusted and direct and clear and productive, .. that were beneficial to employers, families, societies, and Nation, and not delusional psycho lying honorless unJust prostituting-to advance that we have degenerated to, forced to suffer man-hating toxic insane baby-murdering co-working and managing women that Women-Supremist Witch-directed present level of Hell we now in and assured worse since feminized GodLess love-Joy-Truth-Justice-Ordering destroyed psycho controlled.
Remember that time before SCOTUS ruling that forced the GreatSatan Federal Government religion of Witch-torturing to death our silently screaming unborn babies for Synagogue or Satan sacrifice and sometimes the covens dinner of unborn baby-parts?
When sanity, rationality, truth, justice, good-ordering large loving families where men paid a living wage and women showed and taught children to FearGod, to have Christian values, to become a successful adult husband or wife, to support community and those in need?
I remember this Nation and Peoples of right-ordering values and sanity .. before mothers and women raise generations of Witch-directed insane-accepting evils and soul-killing, our women and mothers support baby-murder on whims, before we realized that Witches were and are real and centuries ago Witch-Trials and Hangings we Just and needed today?
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who are credentialed up -- but have no idea what they're doing -- in the field they went to school for.
You might want to read this man’s obituary. It’s probably the most inspiring thing I’ve read in a long time.
Yes. He initially made his money through theft and bought his other companies. This does not display high IQ. His push for H1Bs and 80 hour work weeks show he knows very little about industry.
Ghandi slept with his niece. Hellen Keller either faked being blind and deaf or someone wrote commie nonsense for her.
It is *correct* in some points indeed. Credentialism is a problem in performance based systems.
But any system was performance based after it has spread. World is too large to run on the original ideas.
Agreed with the fact that bright unusual people get suppressed too often. The reason for it is not spelled out: because the system needs to reject loud lower-than-midwits somehow. If doors are opened too wide, it will be reduced to anarchy of bolshevistic views.
The rest of the article is a Dunning-Krueger first curve. “I figured it out, we need to be smart and strong! That’s how we win.”
How naive. And teenager-like. No depth of reasoning. Binary emotionalism. Midwit, in other words.
Well, if it’s a real question I’d answer: a system engineer at the industrial company, last 25 years were very productive in digitalizing hundreds of factories.
But I don’t think you would value an answer.
No disrespect to your intrepid nature, it’s valuable. Just… hating on elites only gets us so far.
All you've done is judge and project. So that's quite rich to tell me what I would or would not value.
And for the record, the last thing I do is hate on elites. Elon is the most elite—and he's someone I admire greatly. Credentials don't make someone elite, which was part of the sentiment of this post.
You sound like you've got life all figured out though—congrats!
It’s not naive at all. When I was young, I was naive, and wanted to join the credentialed class.
But I kept noticing that they could rarely think for themselves nor follow pretty basic reasoning.
Or maybe they could, if incentivised to, but they’re not. They’re incentivised to follow and reinforce consensus; hence the medical field endorsing the insanity of trans activism.
The problem of midwits is widely observed and, more to the point, is plainly obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain.
I have a long corporate career as a builder and I have been fighting the credentialed nitwits, and midwits my entire life. Unfortunately we have allowed them to push credentials as hiring and promotion gatekeepers for positions of authority and influence.
I rose to a position of CEO without a prestigious degree and consistently have to battle these higher credentialed bureaucrats to get real things done. And in getting real things done, it generates their ire and resentment and drives their motivation to undermine me.
I think Ayn Rand explained this to some degree with her simple three actor explanation: producer, looter and moocher. The Midwits are the looters. I love this overview of the producer vs looter concept from Rand:
1. Producers create wealth whereas looters are dependent upon it generated by others.
2. History shows that societies which rely upon "looters" end up in decay, while those who rely on producers invariably thrive.
3. In Atlas Shrugged, the idea of "looter versus producer" is vividly demonstrated as the story progresses, culminating in a conflict between the two sides.
4. The looter is thus someone who takes this value without having created any - they plunder, rob, or otherwise extract what already exists for their own benefit, without contributing anything.
5. This creates a divide between the two groups, producers and looters, who, although may not fully realize, are constantly competing with another despite their own circumstances.
6. On the other hand, when producers dominate the scene, society advances, living standards rise and prosperity follows.
7. When looters prevail, crime, stagnation, poverty and misery follows, as all the resources are taken away leaving nothing behind for future development.
8. Generally, a government will pick either the policy of producing or looting; in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, the society decided to tax and penalize productivity and incentivize taking resources away from those who produced them.
9. Consumers exist in both cases, while producers become increasingly rare in an environment dominated by looters, resulting in lack of new ideas and products and ultimately leading to the collapse of the economy.
10. A producer is someone whose work provides something of value to other people, whether it be physical goods like food or services like protection.
Good comment with sterile academic concepts of value.
I did some research about gov, corp, and institutional coordinated policies that many will be surprised and will help us realize that until those powerful rulers and hate us and all we love or could love, and they want us all suffering in deep psychological soul-crippling pain until death and then burning in Hell for their Synagogue of Satan Profits and pleasures.
Do you think we can vote harder and that will return us from Hell?
--
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Clarity.
I have researched the coordinated corporate-Government policies of impoverishment, liberty suppressing, NAFTA middle-class destroying, living-wage employment rareness, False Inflation reported values that profits corporations and steals from pensioners and labor, wage-suppression starting in late 1970s, seemingly coordinated government and corporate medical cost increases which enslaves workers to larger corporations that include medical insurance and so workers forced to suffer greater abuses to keep the family medically insured, and other ways our real rulers such as VC BlackRock with 'social scoring' of corporations that incentives genociding white Christian virtue-based raised men, fathers, families, protectors and providers, the 'hire no white men, lay-off existing white men' policies that Western HR employees have whistle-Blown and public polling of significant numbers of hiring managers report unwritten policies of 'hire no white men' for as far back as the early 1980s, and my research into solutions, such as I include here.
God Bless., Steve
--
I suggest a trickle-up policy, for once. Cost, corporate profits would return to the sane profits they were earning back in 1979.
Universal Dividend Income (UDI)
A reason to present the UDI is to display why and how badly Gov & Capital has treated us while depending on our tax and public resources. Had wages followed productivity each of our wages and salaries would be double while corporations would still be profiting as they were in late 1970's and earlier.
The Dividend aspect direct us all to consider it like SS pensions, all our working lives we paid into it, FICA, and so it is earned and not some freebe charity whim of Washington, our grandfathers, fathers, mothers, brothers, .., and we have been supporting corporate businesses with free R&D results, public resources, and tax-paid resources. The profits of the Trillions we spent and still spend are given-away and have been for generations of our labor.
You and family under UDI may still work and perhaps invest the extra. Consider the small business created and-or expanded, as well as new capital in stock purchases. The 'investment' Class would expand - perhaps including nearly everyone.
Instead of UBI, we get Dividends for all the tax & public resources spent over generations in R&D and given to for profit corporations. Take a look and decide if a good idea.
Monthly 'Universal Dividend Income' calculation.
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Detailed Description of the Universal Dividend Income Formula and Results
This formulation explores how the total income generated by wage suppression since 1979, along with government policies, could be redistributed to create a Universal Dividend Income for all legal adult citizens in the United States. We will examine the wage-productivity gap, capital policies, government programs, and how redistribution could result in monthly payouts for citizens.
1. Background: Wage Suppression and the Wage-Productivity Gap Since 1979
The period since 1979 has seen a separation between wage growth and productivity. Prior to this, wages and productivity had moved in tandem, meaning as productivity (the amount of goods or services a worker can produce in an hour) increased, so too did wages. However, since 1979, wages have failed to keep up with the rising productivity of workers.
1979 to 2024:
Productivity has increased by approximately 80.9% since 1979, meaning that the average worker today produces nearly 81% more than they did in 1979.
Wages, on the other hand, have only increased by around 29.4% during this time. This discrepancy between the growth in productivity and the stagnation of wages is a direct result of capital policies such as:
Deregulation and tax cuts for corporations and high-income earners.
The decline of unions, reducing workers' bargaining power.
The rise of financialization (e.g., stock buybacks, executive compensation) that focuses more on shareholder returns rather than reinvesting in labor or increasing wages.
This wage suppression—where profits have been funneled primarily to capital (business owners, executives, shareholders) instead of being shared with labor—has contributed to the wage-productivity gap, leaving millions of workers without the benefits of their own increased productivity.
2. Calculating the Wage Gap and Redistributing Capital Profits
To estimate the potential Universal Dividend Income, we need to look at the wage gap created by the productivity-wage divergence.
Median Wage vs. Hypothetical Wage (if wages had kept pace with productivity):
Median Hourly Wage in 1979 (in nominal dollars): $7.36
Adjusted for inflation to 2024 dollars: This equals approximately $22.00 to $23.00 per hour (based on the CPI).
Productivity Increase (1979 to 2024): Productivity has increased by 80.9%.
Hypothetical Median Wage (had wages kept pace with productivity): Hypothetical Median Wage = 22.00 × (1 + 0.809) = 22.00 × 1.809 = 39.80 per hour.
Actual Median Wage in 2024: Around $19.33 per hour.
Wage Difference: The difference between the hypothetical wage (if wages had kept pace with productivity) and the actual wage is: 39.80 - 19.33 = 20.47 per hour. For a full-time worker (approximately 173.2 hours per month): Monthly Wage Gap = 20.47 × 173.2 ≈ 3,543 per month.
Thus, each worker would theoretically have been earning an additional 3,543 per month had wages kept pace with productivity growth.
Redistribution of Capital Profits: The wage gap indicates that capital profits (from increased productivity) have not been fairly shared with labor. In this redistribution model, this increase would be shared among all 250 million legal adult citizens.
The wage increase per citizen per month can be calculated by: Monthly Redistribution per Adult = (250,000,000 × 3,543) / 333,000,000 ≈ 2,659 per adult per month.
Thus, 2,659 per month could be redistributed to each legal adult citizen, based on the wages they should have been earning had they been properly compensated for productivity growth.
3. Social Security, Welfare, and Other Government Payments
In addition to wage increases, the U.S. government provides various welfare programs, such as Social Security, food stamps, housing assistance, and Medicaid. These payments represent a significant source of income redistribution.
Total Annual Welfare Spending: The U.S. government spends approximately 3 trillion dollars per year on welfare programs.
Welfare Spending per Citizen: Annual Welfare Spending per Citizen = 3,000,000,000,000 / 333,000,000 ≈ 9,000 per citizen annually. Monthly Welfare Spending per Citizen = 9,000 / 12 ≈ 750 per citizen per month.
Thus, each citizen currently receives about 750 per month on average from welfare programs.
4. Combining the Two: The Universal Dividend Income
Now, let’s combine both the redistributed wage increase and the welfare payments:
Redistributed Wage Increase: 2,659 per adult per month.
Welfare and Social Security Payments: 750 per citizen per month.
Total monthly amount for each legal adult citizen would be: 2,659 + 750 = 3,409 per adult per month.
For Families with Children: Parents of dependent children would receive 1/3 of the adult amount for each child: 3,409 / 3 ≈ 1,136 per child per month.
5. Summary of Results: Universal Dividend Income
In this Universal Dividend Income model:
Adults (18+ years): Each legal adult citizen would receive around 3,409 per month.
Each Child: For each dependent child, parents would receive an additional 1,136 per month.
This model seeks to redistribute the income generated by increased productivity and the capital profits that have been hoarded since 1979, while also including welfare benefits into the equation. The result is a significant monthly payout that ensures more equitable distribution of wealth across all citizens, which could help combat rising inequality, provide a stronger safety net for families, and increase overall economic stability.
Conclusion:
The wage suppression since 1979—driven by capital policies and the decline of labor protections—has led to an economy where productivity has increased dramatically without a corresponding rise in worker wages. By redistributing the wage-productivity gap along with current welfare payments, the Universal Dividend Income model proposes a more equitable income distribution, offering 3,409 per month for each legal adult and a proportional amount for children. This would provide a substantial economic boost, particularly to low- and middle-income households, and could help restore economic stability and fairness.
So, one objection that comes to mind is huge inflation risk.
Perhaps only estimated living wage in cash is given to the families and people, from rest that all personal debts and mortgage paid. Local gov debts paid.
For remaining dividend, required investing in ventures such as creation or expansion of local small business or others,
Or of own business in home or apartment for a year or two.
Also, while economy settles that Gov invests in international Belt-and-road projects where military bases are converted to serve Man and God and not Satanic Death and Hell,
Investment in other nation and our domestic infrastructure and products that prioritizes the making our and other nations less dependent on international trade,
Perhaps you have suggestions?
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If Synology of Satan decides to bring on a political 'color revolution' by manipulating international banking and investment like they did to that UK women PM - forcing her to resign at their Satanic whims, or as they did to USA and others to undermine President Trump Tariff and other plans. ..
Remember the 2009 mortgage collapse they caused and profited from? How many did they kill? How many lost all livelihood and driven to homelessness and early deaths?
How many of them were Justly punished by public hanging of them and every older adult in their Putrid-murdering bloodline?
They step outline or someone like me given power things they might cause problems they will killed by the thousands and their wealth given to you and others that support Justice and hope for future, and anyone actively against their killings be burned to death in public with all older adults in bloodline, ..
.. and you don't too VagFeelie hurt because of that and to F-ng stupid to keep your poisonous mouth shut, when how about your and your adult bloodline chained together and dragged to death behind a train where people will pay to watch Justice and the Wages of Sin collected?
And they in another country? Well, what could be easier - announce to their populations that if the severed heads of all older adults in bloodline not given to embassy in a week Nukes will mass kill such F-ing evil supporting putrid better dead useless retarded cnts like them, so start sawing off their head to save your family and nation.
-- Sound Good?
Why you object? You think it is against your religion? Well unless your religion is the Synagogue of Satan then you are wrong.
Because Satan ruled Vatican through Modernist infiltrators since 1958, and through-out all other Christian Sects, GodHating women and Modernist Homo commie pedo Elite-supported 'ordained' have been False-Teaching what true Catholicism is, Feminizing and demonizing True masculine Catholics that Castrated us and prevented us from hanging to death Judges that separate fathers-children and parents-children, hanging them in public with divorce-raping wives, law-makers, .. and public burning to death Baby-murdering Witches.
Of course, little or none of that would be needed because men would Justly Protect self-others, and Judges, law-makers, vile women and putrid back-stabbing child-takers should piss themself because to protect - we would hack them to death in public if needed so those F-ing Satanic murdering cnts (of both sexes) would see and Learn the Wages of Sin ..
.. and Gay-Pride public displays of perversion they and our gov forced us to suffer with our Children, shoot-gun in mouth and head blow to bits of thrown off building with Drag-Queen children groomers and librarians and mothers that suffer and abuse our children with them, ..
False-rape-accusers - thrown off building and F-ing die and end their danger to us all.
Get the picture? Demonic-possessed women, mothers, gov, Churches, .. Castrated Catholic Spiritual Warriors and we have so many years of hacking to death all unRepentant minions of Satan to turn to ashes, dust, earth.
As with many things, there's a grain of truth with credentialism. If a nuclear power station's warning klaxon is sounding and a staff member rushes into the director's office with a plan to flush the reactor, it's a reasonable question to ask "what credentials do you hold?", because the director needs to know it the person has a Master's degree or PhD in engineering or nuclear physics.
For some activities, it may legally require professional credentials to sign off on a drawing (architecture, engineering) or to certify a decision (law, medicine).
But for many other activities, there is no requirement for a degree to input into the decision. Or, even if there is merit to having training to weigh in, there are many forms of training that would make a person qualified.
Neither of the two parties is worth a bucket of warm spit.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either Trump or the DEI hire because I analyze issues on a case by case basis and both parties get about half of the issues wrong. I am a political atheist.
The Urban Dictionary defines a political atheist as:
“One who is too intelligent and informed to believe any of the political ideologies being pushed today. Their knowledge of government has evolved to the point that they cannot trust, in any way, shape, or form fairy tales and coincidences peddled by people in power, regardless of the party a politician proclaims him/herself to be in. A political atheist understands that these people tend to be the worst of humanity-- narcissistic, sociopathic lying criminals and are not worthy of supporting; especially not with a vote. To trust a politician is the ultimate act of misplaced faith.
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." -Mark Twain”
He’s just taking advantage of the zeitgeist and government money. Midwits love to “save the planet” and believe EVs are virtuous; Elon just fills that need while making subsidized profits.
Frank: Luckily or unluckily depending on your point of view, Tesla will be bankrupt within the year. The people who buy EV’s now hate Musk and the people who now like Musk hate EV’s and would never buy one. His company is screwed
Have a teacher in my master’s level courses like this now in a class about public administration. She has picked a few favored readings to study for the entire course. If anybody tries to add additional scholarly sources to their work, her favorite response so far is ‘I’m testing you in your understanding of the required readings’ instead of if you understand the concept being taught. And then she wants to complain about a lack of originality and shallowness in the responses she gets.
Sorry bro, but it's the 120s that hang out on Substack comments. Ask me how I know. 😉
The ones above 120 don't care about Substack essays like this or the distinctions you're trying to make. We're trapped inside this soap opera while they're wholly preoccupied with things that take more intellect, focus, and energy.
I frequently find myself being a midwit by striving to avoid direct confrontation and the risk of offending a friend or associate, tempering my words and opinions in an effort to be ‘reasonable.’ I’m getting over it. When confronted with opinions or judgements with which I vehemently disagree, I am unabashedly voicing my dissent and refusing to censor my opinions for fear of ruffling someone’s feathers.
TL:DR — I’m calling BULLSHIT! when I see it.
Love the blunt self-awareness—best of luck on your anti-bullshit journey :)
We must grow out of caring about their bs.
Had a friend until the election and one thing I noticed was their constant reposting of videos online. Something I never used to because of what people might say or think. But ever since then, I have been reposting anything that strikes as having that rare commodity of common sense. Oh, and am even reposting those humorous vids more often too; never know, might help somebody else make it through the day. So that’s one way I’m trying to break out of the midwit zone.
Good piece!
I wrote a couple years back about how "Credentialism can also be very easily taken to absurd extremes. Two recent examples were diversity-hire Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson saying she could not determine what a woman is without first consulting a biologist, and Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz saying she would need to defer to an “Education Expert™” on whether gay porn is appropriate in kindergarten classrooms...Where the Laptop Class believes that credentialism is the sole path to wisdom, the Physical Class gives much greater weight to what Nassim Taleb calls Skin In The Game. "
https://milesmcstylez.substack.com/p/embrace-your-inner-barbarian
It's tragic and ironic how much Taleb beclowned himself in the wake of COVID.
Trust but verify the experts 😎
Miles and Stefanie,
The false Class-sorting female-meritless BS-jobs in HR department that Man-hating abusing man-debasing Commie-Level destructive Credentialism mentioned reminded me that time before Toxic Sick destroying abusing poison-vomit valued womanhood was hired and advanced over far better men, men that could be trusted and direct and clear and productive, .. that were beneficial to employers, families, societies, and Nation, and not delusional psycho lying honorless unJust prostituting-to advance that we have degenerated to, forced to suffer man-hating toxic insane baby-murdering co-working and managing women that Women-Supremist Witch-directed present level of Hell we now in and assured worse since feminized GodLess love-Joy-Truth-Justice-Ordering destroyed psycho controlled.
Remember that time before SCOTUS ruling that forced the GreatSatan Federal Government religion of Witch-torturing to death our silently screaming unborn babies for Synagogue or Satan sacrifice and sometimes the covens dinner of unborn baby-parts?
When sanity, rationality, truth, justice, good-ordering large loving families where men paid a living wage and women showed and taught children to FearGod, to have Christian values, to become a successful adult husband or wife, to support community and those in need?
I remember this Nation and Peoples of right-ordering values and sanity .. before mothers and women raise generations of Witch-directed insane-accepting evils and soul-killing, our women and mothers support baby-murder on whims, before we realized that Witches were and are real and centuries ago Witch-Trials and Hangings we Just and needed today?
Remember?
I wish I could like this a thousand times🏆🥇👍👏
What a great piece!
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who are credentialed up -- but have no idea what they're doing -- in the field they went to school for.
You might want to read this man’s obituary. It’s probably the most inspiring thing I’ve read in a long time.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/saltlaketribune/name/val-patterson-obituary?id=11853526#fbLoggedOuthttp://
>Complains about midwits
>Praises Elon Musk
>Cites Ghandi and Hellen Keller
Good article otherwise but ironically brought down by the midwit industrial complex.
You think Elon is a midwit?
What's wrong with Ghandi and Hellen Keller?
Use your words.
Yes. He initially made his money through theft and bought his other companies. This does not display high IQ. His push for H1Bs and 80 hour work weeks show he knows very little about industry.
Ghandi slept with his niece. Hellen Keller either faked being blind and deaf or someone wrote commie nonsense for her.
Elon Musk is a gay retard and so is anyone who pretends otherwise.
My grandchildren will be baptized, Musk and all those who act like him will not have any.
Elon is no midwit but every person needs to realize their limitations. He is brilliant running tech companies but government not so much 🤪
Yes, haha, the moment I read the Elon part I was like "Isn't Musk the biggest midwit of this generation? Then why is the author on his side?"
yes, elon is the biggest midwit of this generation lmfao
what have you built, Martin?
Oh, I had to build something? Sorry, I didn't get the memo
What has Elon built and not bought?
this x1000
Bravo Stepfanie!
Hate or love the guy: Elon is, without a shadow of a doubt, the man in the arena.
All criticism of this post reminds me of that very apt (meme) headline: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? Turns out you're f***ing stupid".
This is far from insightful.
It is *correct* in some points indeed. Credentialism is a problem in performance based systems.
But any system was performance based after it has spread. World is too large to run on the original ideas.
Agreed with the fact that bright unusual people get suppressed too often. The reason for it is not spelled out: because the system needs to reject loud lower-than-midwits somehow. If doors are opened too wide, it will be reduced to anarchy of bolshevistic views.
The rest of the article is a Dunning-Krueger first curve. “I figured it out, we need to be smart and strong! That’s how we win.”
How naive. And teenager-like. No depth of reasoning. Binary emotionalism. Midwit, in other words.
Sorry! 🙏
what have you built?
Well, if it’s a real question I’d answer: a system engineer at the industrial company, last 25 years were very productive in digitalizing hundreds of factories.
But I don’t think you would value an answer.
No disrespect to your intrepid nature, it’s valuable. Just… hating on elites only gets us so far.
All you've done is judge and project. So that's quite rich to tell me what I would or would not value.
And for the record, the last thing I do is hate on elites. Elon is the most elite—and he's someone I admire greatly. Credentials don't make someone elite, which was part of the sentiment of this post.
You sound like you've got life all figured out though—congrats!
this dude's a hater, and was so excited at the opportunity to call a woman naive and teenager-like. Massive L.
and the passive aggressive 'sorry 🙏' at the end, lmfaooo.
I would say good luck on your next tindr date bro, but I know you gave that up on that already. 💀
It’s not naive at all. When I was young, I was naive, and wanted to join the credentialed class.
But I kept noticing that they could rarely think for themselves nor follow pretty basic reasoning.
Or maybe they could, if incentivised to, but they’re not. They’re incentivised to follow and reinforce consensus; hence the medical field endorsing the insanity of trans activism.
The problem of midwits is widely observed and, more to the point, is plainly obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain.
Great piece!
Thank you. This is brilliantly well done.
I have a long corporate career as a builder and I have been fighting the credentialed nitwits, and midwits my entire life. Unfortunately we have allowed them to push credentials as hiring and promotion gatekeepers for positions of authority and influence.
I rose to a position of CEO without a prestigious degree and consistently have to battle these higher credentialed bureaucrats to get real things done. And in getting real things done, it generates their ire and resentment and drives their motivation to undermine me.
I think Ayn Rand explained this to some degree with her simple three actor explanation: producer, looter and moocher. The Midwits are the looters. I love this overview of the producer vs looter concept from Rand:
1. Producers create wealth whereas looters are dependent upon it generated by others.
2. History shows that societies which rely upon "looters" end up in decay, while those who rely on producers invariably thrive.
3. In Atlas Shrugged, the idea of "looter versus producer" is vividly demonstrated as the story progresses, culminating in a conflict between the two sides.
4. The looter is thus someone who takes this value without having created any - they plunder, rob, or otherwise extract what already exists for their own benefit, without contributing anything.
5. This creates a divide between the two groups, producers and looters, who, although may not fully realize, are constantly competing with another despite their own circumstances.
6. On the other hand, when producers dominate the scene, society advances, living standards rise and prosperity follows.
7. When looters prevail, crime, stagnation, poverty and misery follows, as all the resources are taken away leaving nothing behind for future development.
8. Generally, a government will pick either the policy of producing or looting; in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, the society decided to tax and penalize productivity and incentivize taking resources away from those who produced them.
9. Consumers exist in both cases, while producers become increasingly rare in an environment dominated by looters, resulting in lack of new ideas and products and ultimately leading to the collapse of the economy.
10. A producer is someone whose work provides something of value to other people, whether it be physical goods like food or services like protection.
Frank,
Good comment with sterile academic concepts of value.
I did some research about gov, corp, and institutional coordinated policies that many will be surprised and will help us realize that until those powerful rulers and hate us and all we love or could love, and they want us all suffering in deep psychological soul-crippling pain until death and then burning in Hell for their Synagogue of Satan Profits and pleasures.
Do you think we can vote harder and that will return us from Hell?
--
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Clarity.
I have researched the coordinated corporate-Government policies of impoverishment, liberty suppressing, NAFTA middle-class destroying, living-wage employment rareness, False Inflation reported values that profits corporations and steals from pensioners and labor, wage-suppression starting in late 1970s, seemingly coordinated government and corporate medical cost increases which enslaves workers to larger corporations that include medical insurance and so workers forced to suffer greater abuses to keep the family medically insured, and other ways our real rulers such as VC BlackRock with 'social scoring' of corporations that incentives genociding white Christian virtue-based raised men, fathers, families, protectors and providers, the 'hire no white men, lay-off existing white men' policies that Western HR employees have whistle-Blown and public polling of significant numbers of hiring managers report unwritten policies of 'hire no white men' for as far back as the early 1980s, and my research into solutions, such as I include here.
God Bless., Steve
--
I suggest a trickle-up policy, for once. Cost, corporate profits would return to the sane profits they were earning back in 1979.
Universal Dividend Income (UDI)
A reason to present the UDI is to display why and how badly Gov & Capital has treated us while depending on our tax and public resources. Had wages followed productivity each of our wages and salaries would be double while corporations would still be profiting as they were in late 1970's and earlier.
The Dividend aspect direct us all to consider it like SS pensions, all our working lives we paid into it, FICA, and so it is earned and not some freebe charity whim of Washington, our grandfathers, fathers, mothers, brothers, .., and we have been supporting corporate businesses with free R&D results, public resources, and tax-paid resources. The profits of the Trillions we spent and still spend are given-away and have been for generations of our labor.
You and family under UDI may still work and perhaps invest the extra. Consider the small business created and-or expanded, as well as new capital in stock purchases. The 'investment' Class would expand - perhaps including nearly everyone.
Instead of UBI, we get Dividends for all the tax & public resources spent over generations in R&D and given to for profit corporations. Take a look and decide if a good idea.
Monthly 'Universal Dividend Income' calculation.
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Detailed Description of the Universal Dividend Income Formula and Results
This formulation explores how the total income generated by wage suppression since 1979, along with government policies, could be redistributed to create a Universal Dividend Income for all legal adult citizens in the United States. We will examine the wage-productivity gap, capital policies, government programs, and how redistribution could result in monthly payouts for citizens.
1. Background: Wage Suppression and the Wage-Productivity Gap Since 1979
The period since 1979 has seen a separation between wage growth and productivity. Prior to this, wages and productivity had moved in tandem, meaning as productivity (the amount of goods or services a worker can produce in an hour) increased, so too did wages. However, since 1979, wages have failed to keep up with the rising productivity of workers.
1979 to 2024:
Productivity has increased by approximately 80.9% since 1979, meaning that the average worker today produces nearly 81% more than they did in 1979.
Wages, on the other hand, have only increased by around 29.4% during this time. This discrepancy between the growth in productivity and the stagnation of wages is a direct result of capital policies such as:
Deregulation and tax cuts for corporations and high-income earners.
The decline of unions, reducing workers' bargaining power.
The rise of financialization (e.g., stock buybacks, executive compensation) that focuses more on shareholder returns rather than reinvesting in labor or increasing wages.
This wage suppression—where profits have been funneled primarily to capital (business owners, executives, shareholders) instead of being shared with labor—has contributed to the wage-productivity gap, leaving millions of workers without the benefits of their own increased productivity.
2. Calculating the Wage Gap and Redistributing Capital Profits
To estimate the potential Universal Dividend Income, we need to look at the wage gap created by the productivity-wage divergence.
Median Wage vs. Hypothetical Wage (if wages had kept pace with productivity):
Median Hourly Wage in 1979 (in nominal dollars): $7.36
Adjusted for inflation to 2024 dollars: This equals approximately $22.00 to $23.00 per hour (based on the CPI).
Productivity Increase (1979 to 2024): Productivity has increased by 80.9%.
Hypothetical Median Wage (had wages kept pace with productivity): Hypothetical Median Wage = 22.00 × (1 + 0.809) = 22.00 × 1.809 = 39.80 per hour.
Actual Median Wage in 2024: Around $19.33 per hour.
Wage Difference: The difference between the hypothetical wage (if wages had kept pace with productivity) and the actual wage is: 39.80 - 19.33 = 20.47 per hour. For a full-time worker (approximately 173.2 hours per month): Monthly Wage Gap = 20.47 × 173.2 ≈ 3,543 per month.
Thus, each worker would theoretically have been earning an additional 3,543 per month had wages kept pace with productivity growth.
Redistribution of Capital Profits: The wage gap indicates that capital profits (from increased productivity) have not been fairly shared with labor. In this redistribution model, this increase would be shared among all 250 million legal adult citizens.
The wage increase per citizen per month can be calculated by: Monthly Redistribution per Adult = (250,000,000 × 3,543) / 333,000,000 ≈ 2,659 per adult per month.
Thus, 2,659 per month could be redistributed to each legal adult citizen, based on the wages they should have been earning had they been properly compensated for productivity growth.
3. Social Security, Welfare, and Other Government Payments
In addition to wage increases, the U.S. government provides various welfare programs, such as Social Security, food stamps, housing assistance, and Medicaid. These payments represent a significant source of income redistribution.
Total Annual Welfare Spending: The U.S. government spends approximately 3 trillion dollars per year on welfare programs.
Welfare Spending per Citizen: Annual Welfare Spending per Citizen = 3,000,000,000,000 / 333,000,000 ≈ 9,000 per citizen annually. Monthly Welfare Spending per Citizen = 9,000 / 12 ≈ 750 per citizen per month.
Thus, each citizen currently receives about 750 per month on average from welfare programs.
4. Combining the Two: The Universal Dividend Income
Now, let’s combine both the redistributed wage increase and the welfare payments:
Redistributed Wage Increase: 2,659 per adult per month.
Welfare and Social Security Payments: 750 per citizen per month.
Total monthly amount for each legal adult citizen would be: 2,659 + 750 = 3,409 per adult per month.
For Families with Children: Parents of dependent children would receive 1/3 of the adult amount for each child: 3,409 / 3 ≈ 1,136 per child per month.
5. Summary of Results: Universal Dividend Income
In this Universal Dividend Income model:
Adults (18+ years): Each legal adult citizen would receive around 3,409 per month.
Each Child: For each dependent child, parents would receive an additional 1,136 per month.
This model seeks to redistribute the income generated by increased productivity and the capital profits that have been hoarded since 1979, while also including welfare benefits into the equation. The result is a significant monthly payout that ensures more equitable distribution of wealth across all citizens, which could help combat rising inequality, provide a stronger safety net for families, and increase overall economic stability.
Conclusion:
The wage suppression since 1979—driven by capital policies and the decline of labor protections—has led to an economy where productivity has increased dramatically without a corresponding rise in worker wages. By redistributing the wage-productivity gap along with current welfare payments, the Universal Dividend Income model proposes a more equitable income distribution, offering 3,409 per month for each legal adult and a proportional amount for children. This would provide a substantial economic boost, particularly to low- and middle-income households, and could help restore economic stability and fairness.
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So, one objection that comes to mind is huge inflation risk.
Perhaps only estimated living wage in cash is given to the families and people, from rest that all personal debts and mortgage paid. Local gov debts paid.
For remaining dividend, required investing in ventures such as creation or expansion of local small business or others,
Or of own business in home or apartment for a year or two.
Also, while economy settles that Gov invests in international Belt-and-road projects where military bases are converted to serve Man and God and not Satanic Death and Hell,
Investment in other nation and our domestic infrastructure and products that prioritizes the making our and other nations less dependent on international trade,
Perhaps you have suggestions?
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If Synology of Satan decides to bring on a political 'color revolution' by manipulating international banking and investment like they did to that UK women PM - forcing her to resign at their Satanic whims, or as they did to USA and others to undermine President Trump Tariff and other plans. ..
Remember the 2009 mortgage collapse they caused and profited from? How many did they kill? How many lost all livelihood and driven to homelessness and early deaths?
How many of them were Justly punished by public hanging of them and every older adult in their Putrid-murdering bloodline?
They step outline or someone like me given power things they might cause problems they will killed by the thousands and their wealth given to you and others that support Justice and hope for future, and anyone actively against their killings be burned to death in public with all older adults in bloodline, ..
.. and you don't too VagFeelie hurt because of that and to F-ng stupid to keep your poisonous mouth shut, when how about your and your adult bloodline chained together and dragged to death behind a train where people will pay to watch Justice and the Wages of Sin collected?
And they in another country? Well, what could be easier - announce to their populations that if the severed heads of all older adults in bloodline not given to embassy in a week Nukes will mass kill such F-ing evil supporting putrid better dead useless retarded cnts like them, so start sawing off their head to save your family and nation.
-- Sound Good?
Why you object? You think it is against your religion? Well unless your religion is the Synagogue of Satan then you are wrong.
Because Satan ruled Vatican through Modernist infiltrators since 1958, and through-out all other Christian Sects, GodHating women and Modernist Homo commie pedo Elite-supported 'ordained' have been False-Teaching what true Catholicism is, Feminizing and demonizing True masculine Catholics that Castrated us and prevented us from hanging to death Judges that separate fathers-children and parents-children, hanging them in public with divorce-raping wives, law-makers, .. and public burning to death Baby-murdering Witches.
Of course, little or none of that would be needed because men would Justly Protect self-others, and Judges, law-makers, vile women and putrid back-stabbing child-takers should piss themself because to protect - we would hack them to death in public if needed so those F-ing Satanic murdering cnts (of both sexes) would see and Learn the Wages of Sin ..
.. and Gay-Pride public displays of perversion they and our gov forced us to suffer with our Children, shoot-gun in mouth and head blow to bits of thrown off building with Drag-Queen children groomers and librarians and mothers that suffer and abuse our children with them, ..
False-rape-accusers - thrown off building and F-ing die and end their danger to us all.
Get the picture? Demonic-possessed women, mothers, gov, Churches, .. Castrated Catholic Spiritual Warriors and we have so many years of hacking to death all unRepentant minions of Satan to turn to ashes, dust, earth.
Sound good?
As with many things, there's a grain of truth with credentialism. If a nuclear power station's warning klaxon is sounding and a staff member rushes into the director's office with a plan to flush the reactor, it's a reasonable question to ask "what credentials do you hold?", because the director needs to know it the person has a Master's degree or PhD in engineering or nuclear physics.
For some activities, it may legally require professional credentials to sign off on a drawing (architecture, engineering) or to certify a decision (law, medicine).
But for many other activities, there is no requirement for a degree to input into the decision. Or, even if there is merit to having training to weigh in, there are many forms of training that would make a person qualified.
Neither of the two parties is worth a bucket of warm spit.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either Trump or the DEI hire because I analyze issues on a case by case basis and both parties get about half of the issues wrong. I am a political atheist.
The Urban Dictionary defines a political atheist as:
“One who is too intelligent and informed to believe any of the political ideologies being pushed today. Their knowledge of government has evolved to the point that they cannot trust, in any way, shape, or form fairy tales and coincidences peddled by people in power, regardless of the party a politician proclaims him/herself to be in. A political atheist understands that these people tend to be the worst of humanity-- narcissistic, sociopathic lying criminals and are not worthy of supporting; especially not with a vote. To trust a politician is the ultimate act of misplaced faith.
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." -Mark Twain”
Not to brag, but I managed to become a midwit without going to college
Elon as the anti-midwit? I dunno. EVs are the pinnacle of midwit consumerism.
He’s just taking advantage of the zeitgeist and government money. Midwits love to “save the planet” and believe EVs are virtuous; Elon just fills that need while making subsidized profits.
Frank: Luckily or unluckily depending on your point of view, Tesla will be bankrupt within the year. The people who buy EV’s now hate Musk and the people who now like Musk hate EV’s and would never buy one. His company is screwed
If I had bet against Elon all the times I thought it was the obvious call, I'd be beyond broke.
I've worked subordinate to PhDs for more than three decades. I'm still waiting to be impressed.
I have called them the dreaded 120 IQs. Smart enough to know how to work the system. They memorize well, they regurgitate well. But they can’t think.
Have a teacher in my master’s level courses like this now in a class about public administration. She has picked a few favored readings to study for the entire course. If anybody tries to add additional scholarly sources to their work, her favorite response so far is ‘I’m testing you in your understanding of the required readings’ instead of if you understand the concept being taught. And then she wants to complain about a lack of originality and shallowness in the responses she gets.
Sorry bro, but it's the 120s that hang out on Substack comments. Ask me how I know. 😉
The ones above 120 don't care about Substack essays like this or the distinctions you're trying to make. We're trapped inside this soap opera while they're wholly preoccupied with things that take more intellect, focus, and energy.