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I think the worst aspect of “not noticing” in various ways is that it harms the person with lower capacity the most. When we can’t acknowledge that not every kid is going to be successful in college, that doesn’t hurt those who will be fine in college, but those who won’t. We can sort of cheat them through (combinations of grade inflation and easy majors can probably get anyone within 1σ of normal to a diploma) but even then, they cannot do that level of work, and worse, they graduate with outsized expectations (I graduated therefore I get a nice middle class job, right? Right?) but with no actual skills they can actually trade for a decent living. Now instead of the dumb kids learning carpentry and roofing, they pretend to learn Literature and graduate with no skill at all. Further, there’s no real plan for how to employ those with limited ability. Most of those jobs are either gone to computers and machines or to immigrants or shipped off to Pakistan. Even if we start recognizing that Johnny is stupid, there’s no place in the economy for him, nor is there a welfare program for him. He’s either going to hustle (probably in some form of illegal way) or starve or get hooked on drugs and hopefully take himself out.
The economy has an almost bottomless demand for low skill labor. Amazon, Uber, Walmart, etc.
Do those jobs provide liveable wages? I mean I get that we have some sort of “jobs” for stupid people, but they generally don’t pay enough to live on let alone have a family or not need roommates etc. especially when compared to things like skilled labor.
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I feel like the USA combination of affluence and low minimum wage means that this is more the case than for other Western economies
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Not with the minimum wage, housing regulations, mandatory health insurance, AI, etc.
This simply does not line up with observed reality. Low-skill employers are always hiring, they're advertising heavily for employees, they keep raising wages and improving conditions, and these jobs can't be done by a clanker because the clanker does not have hands.
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They have killed the status on those jobs. Straight to Incels’r US. Back in the day you could work a factory job that sucks, have a still skinny wife, and pump out a couple kids in a 1500 sq ft house. You can still pull that off if you are Hispanic. But not if you are white and even if you are black it’s going to be hard.
Latino here. I did not know that I got a +2 racial bonus to TFR. How can I unlock this power?
You have to invest into latina wife racial skill, even early levels will manifest as decently looking wife, who will pump children in order to get welfare - which is way more than she could earn back home in the shithole she comes from. I would think that you leared this from your race clan/guild already. This strategy is used by many such players, who tunnel new players through VPN from their original servers.
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It's achievement-based. You have to have two kids to unlock the perk.
Fucking win-more mechanics.
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You could always do some fuckboi-maxxing and lean into your inner Yeison/Jhonny/Brayan/Kevin.
Then you can tap into the diverse array of unique and scintillating personalities that latinas have to offer.
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Why can Hispanics do it but whites can't? I'm trying to parse what this even means.
A Hispanic that is either first generation born here or illegal/semi legal that came from my Mexico there is no social stigma with being a laborer. A white guy has a stronger expectation to make it into white collar world or higher (boss/capital side).
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Blue-collar white people are a different social class than recent Hispanic immigrants. One’s dating pool is constrained more by class and social expectations than by income per se.
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By working under the table while also claiming benefits (by stealing someone else's identity). I mean, theoretically a white person can do the same, but there aren't entire state governments dedicated to helping them obtain benefits while being illegal immigrants, and entire DA departments unwilling to prosecute them for it. See this comic/infographic, along with the pathetic attempt to debunk it:
https://imgur.com/fwd-fwd-john-legal-vs-juan-illegal-lA0eug9
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/13/facebook-posts/post-comparing-joe-legal-and-jose-illegal-rife-ina/
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It's certainly not due to the overwhelming number of skinny hispanic women in wealthy countries. The TFR of hispanic countries are also now pretty similar to the US.
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