tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post3175294986428610345..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: Tough lessonQuiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-62479703487399762592012-09-02T22:32:06.929+01:002012-09-02T22:32:06.929+01:00QM, I tend to agree with your assessment of the cu...QM, I tend to agree with your assessment of the current exam cohort as just as intelligent as their predecessors.<br />However, I suspect that will change over the coming years. We have, through our state aparatus, selectively advantaged the least talented in our population, while penalising the brightest and best. Our clever girls and boys are putting off starting a family until their thirties, having paid off their study costs and hauled themselves into a starter home. They are hampered by declining fertility, and the need to stay in paid work.<br />At the other end of the ability spectrum, they start turning out babies from the age of fifteen, and they keep doing it, because everything is paid for by the social.<br />You get more of what you reward, and less of what you punish. We are rewarding the underclass.<br /><br />MontyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com