Comment Re:Besides... (Score 2) 346
They don't need to hire one, just change someone's job title. Maybe we'll have an acronym arms race (in fact, I assume there is one already!)
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...
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
