What this article (and summary) should be focussing on is not the fact that intelligent people can be distracted but on why society is under-utilizing their capabilities to such an extent that boredom is possible
Society under-utilizes gifted people because otherwise gifted people would become some kind of "elite"
Do they create more than they destroy?
Prove they destroy real wealth first, then we'll talk.
I suspect that this is not easily done.
If someone's going to try, I suggest comparing the spending power of a $ in the hand of someone at the top or bottom of the chain for any given commodity...
Maybe it's clearer now how different my half-thought-through idea is from the present way of doing things? I'm trying to visualise how citizens could manage their managers online
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai