Survey finds that most British people are perfectly happy to be average...

Survey finds that most British people are perfectly happy to be average, and would rather be low-achievers than have to deal with stress.

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Why are people like this, Sup Forums? I don't get it.

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lads?

It would be pointless to explain to a mundane such as yourself

All the high achievers are currently working you basement dwelling liberal arts retard

most people just want to be fed and live a comfy life, do you honestly think people care who governs them?

>rich people have stress
>rich people work hard
>rich people deserve money
>rich people are smart
When will those memes end? Rich people are lazy money-inherited exploiting low intelligence degenerates that are on level of child who have nothing better to do than to stack other people's money, push phallic objects in anus and play moloch games. As soon as high educated international high-IQ people took over here after EU and they fired all uneducated bosses, is the second everything gone to shit, crime risen and every water got polluted to the point you can't swim anywhere and have to buy bottled water.. Current rich people should be all exterminates since they are parasitic organism.

This is why basic income will work so well!

Okay mr Marx

Because people prefer to not have too many responsibilities. Being a high achiever usually translates into having huge or many responsibilities. Responsibilities means that other people are dependent upon you, socially, intellectually and professionally. This constant realisation often means that it generates high amounts of stress, as we are inherently socially altruistic organisms that care a lot about keeping face. Keeping face, is of course a lot harder when you have lots of responsibilities, and you are out in the open for the public to ridicule. The most prime example is of course the 'prime minister', who must be able to take all the hits, something that demands A LOT, and for that reason, only the most resilient or psychopathic people end up in really high places.

You can directly see this relationship in the wishes and ambitions of people.

When we are kids, we always dream of being doctors, pilots, presidents, detectives, or other gleaming occupations, not only because they are archetypal and enforced through culture, but because they are beacons of individual responsibility. As a child, who has zero responsibilities, and has not yet felt the real scorn of his peers, this of course seems to be a incredibly attractive goal.

The older we get, the more we feel the weight of responsibilities, and the less alluring they seem to most, but the most resilient, capable, ambitious and psychopathic/narcistic people. That's why most people are perfectly fine being governed over, and go for the low responsibility, low stress level, aka being blue pilled.

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babies of smart people are well educated, whats your point?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

I've found that above a certain level of seniority (particularly in the public sector) there's more tiresome bullshit to deal with.

You spend less time excelling, and more time firefighting mindless bureaucracy.

As of lately, due to the incredibly rise of societies complexity (mostly caused by information technologies and automation), even more responsibilities are thrown at individual citizens. This might not seem to be the case on face value, but is actually true. To be a successful adult, we might not be as handy around the house or as pragmatic anymore as we used to, but at the same time, we need to be able to take care of ourselves in this bureaucratic mess that is called life, usually lacking any type of guidance or support that was the case when we grew up in smaller communities, where it was more 'monkey see monkey do' type of learning. Nowadays, we have this naive sense of trust in the capabilities of individual human beings due to equality teachings, that presume that every non retarded human being is capable of all these feats, completely disregarding that we are just an incredibly complex neural network that is every day learning to understand and categorise the complexity confronted to us.

Hence, most normal people are increasingly swamped with the complexity of life and the new responsibilities it brings (in the Netherlands, we call this the 'Participation Society' as of lately, which basically means : Automate every governmental job, and outsource it to the citizens, call it 'participation', in stead of work, so we can spend less and you can be more stressed).

As a result, less people will strive for excellence or high achieving jobs, making it even more easy to control the masses top down, as self-education and self-realisation are not seen as virtues, but cumbersome, and values such as 'be a good friend by drinking away all your money at the pub every evening' become more appealing . Values that promote high achievement and excellence are not being promoted in the lower socio-economical classes, and after a wile, a form of defeatism/fatalism kicks in, aka learnt helplessness.

Your welcome.

cool, so its smart people keeping working class people down, seems like communism is a good idea after all.

No its smart people who just make more money because they are smarter

That's how it should be

not really, everyone deserves an equal chance at life.

You are doing so great Poland that you sold everything and now walk around globe, search to loot the remaining shit before niggers take all your jobs, because really that's the only reason the import masses of people to EU, since those bosses are dumb all over and can't find any other solution than to import more slaves to save themselves with illegals and low-pay workers. Hurr durr i suck so much, lets import million slaves to save my incompetence as a boss.

Thats dysgenics

Yea no, companies dont want to hire them because they are useless
Its a entirely government operation
It would not happen without welfare

Hurr durr lets employ bunch of Christian idiots in EU parliament, like Merkel, they follow protocol like dogs, but can't think since they have an Jesus blockade. Fucking cow can't even lose weight.

10/10
Thanks, Hollander

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Guys, is fidgeting in Excel, R, and AZAP for 8 hours (5hrs actually working) a day for a 1k€/month stressful?

No, you just have to go to the right schools. There are plenty of former Eton and Harrow fuckwits in good jobs purely because of the old school tie.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, monetary gain usually requires intelligence, if not, a lot of effort and merit on ones behalf.

Yeah, there's the odd few that are born to rich bastards, but in Australian society (and most European countries as their education and class system is similar to ours) you have to give things a go in order to get money. We're all given the opportunity to succeed, and some of us exploit that opportunity rather than complain on a message board about our circumstances.

I dont disagree that some people get a unfair advantage
But its a really smart percentage over all.

I didnt present a absolute
Did