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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
as Dennis said: I mean it.
Every time you come out with something where I can "un-down" you and cheer you up it's as much therapy for me as it is for you.
Because every time your questions or a rant boils down to something like "I can't stomach this idiocy anymore." I know it isn't just me asking himself whether I'm slowly loosing my last marbles or the masses outside ARE that terminally stupid. You (and a bunch of others here) are more often than I would like to admit my proof that I'm not inside of a huge mental asylum.
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The masses out there are not terminally stupid. They are terminally *lazy*.
I know some people who are more than intelligent enough, as they have finished a bachelor or a master in a field that I'd call respectable. Often, their jobs require them to NOT be stupid.
Still, when they need to have something done on the computer, or have to have a new home entertainment system installed, or a device configured, they call me and try to get me to do it for them. Those same people are also the ones saying "I can't do that" even before they took a look at what they would need to do.
They just don't have the drive to study and learn new things. They also groan, sigh, and moan when they have to study a course on work-related stuff (rule changes in law, or taxes, or whatever).
IMHO, because there are a lot of these people, they are the ones which make employers think that people above 35 are less interesting for a company, and the ones above 45 are completely and utterly useless, even though they still have 20-22 years to go before retirement.
There are quite some 45+ year old people I know that react with fear and loathing (even when not in Las Vegas) if they are required to do something that is only the tiniest bit outside their normal line of work.
Heck, I know a few people who are in their twenties that are already like this.
"Could you write a mailer script in PHP that sends an uploaded to a number of people?" (And it's PHP because the webserver happens to be running Apache on Debian, with PHP already installed and serving some stuff.)
- "No, I can't. That wasn't a part of my education. I've only worked with C#."
Those people WILL be useless in 20 years... after the version of C# they learned has moved on to beyond being a relic.