Intelligence
or the Lack of?
Why our top people are not very bright. This
really is an unwanted truth.
When I was at junior school my teacher told
me that we had to prepare for all the leisure time we would have in the future.
Strangely enough the people in my area used to work around 8hrs a day, one per
household. Now we find we need two people per household working 10hrs a day and
of course many more hours sat in a traffic jam, so what went wrong?
The problem is that the people who run the
country, the politicians, the bankers and the businessmen don’t appear very
bright but why should this be. Well! It all starts in the classroom. To get top
jobs you really need qualifications and even more so contacts. Now the rich
kids whose fathers are in the ‘boys club’ have these contacts handed to them on
a platter. Daddy will see to that, but what about the qualifications? The
hardest thing a rich kid has to do is turn up for university lectures. He will
have any amount of help he needs with his work and will have plenty of time to
go sailing in his yacht. On the other hand the poor kid is skint. There is no
one to help him and most are working for a pittance at one or two jobs while
they are getting their qualifications. It’s hard going. When they get their
qualifications they then have to fight their way into the work place, while the
rich kid who had nothing better to do but study is given a company or two. The
unwanted truth is that most top jobs are pretty much inherited, with no link to
ability.
Do I have to prove what I am saying? I think
not. Look at British industry if there is any of it left. Britain’s economy
used to be manufacturing based, it was the backbone of our nation but the
latest figures, depending who you listen to, shows manufacturing’s share of the
economy around 15% and this wasn’t simply Maggie Thatcher’s Tory hatred of
working people (shut around a third of manufacturing down). We now depend on
things like banking. That leaves you biting your knuckles, doesn’t it? Is
British industry really as bad as the figures sound? Of course not it’s far
worse, the majority of that 15% isn’t British owned. If you want to save the
car industry during this recession or the motorcycle industry we are talking
about saving Asian companies.
We don’t see much of the trade figures these
days, do we? They used to be on the ‘box’ every month. In bad times the country
was in the red, occasionally in the black. The other day I was sat watching a
program on the dire state of the US economy and the concerns about their trade
deficit. They had a list on how different countries were doing. Right at the
top were the successful Germans and Chinese. Guess who was at the bottom
fighting with the Americans for last place, billions and billions and billions
in the red?
Apparently America has been sold to the
Chinese, or at least that’s where they are getting the cash from to keep their
economy afloat. It’s known as the Chinese non-nuclear deterrent but where are
Gordon and Alistair getting their hundreds of billions from to stop Britain
sinking into the bog of incompetence????? Not once have I heard a rational
answer from our economic experts, surely some one knows?
For anyone who thinks I am a little bias
here against the rich, I wouldn’t turn down the easy life, perhaps I’m jealous.