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Mitt Romney unapologetically destroyed thousands of jobs for his own gain for 40 years with Bain Capital. Now he's being framed as some kind of moral warrior, for the act of... retiring? (www.newyorker.com)

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/bigassbunny on 2023-10-24 03:46:03.

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[–] Coreidan 3 points 1 year ago

It’s the dunning kruger effect. A lot of people think that because you’re an expert in some field, then that proves that you’re smart and therefore apply the same talent to everything.

Your Dad may be smart with science, but all that means is he’s good at science.

The assumption is that if your Dad is smart enough to figure out science then surely figuring out politics is a cake walk. But that just isn’t now it works. The two subjects require completely different skill sets and knowledge bases and at the end of the day you only get from it what you put into it.

Being terrible at politics doesn’t make you great at science it just makes you bad at politics.