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'''Stupid people''': It is little better for we of the great, face-slapping mediocrity. Even if we do manage to make our own way to the right room, by some kind of fluke, we will be faced with an insidious brain drain as soon as we get there. “Wait. Where are you going? Who will tell me what to do?” | '''Stupid people''': It is little better for we of the great, face-slapping mediocrity. Even if we do manage to make our own way to the right room, by some kind of fluke, we will be faced with an insidious brain drain as soon as we get there. “Wait. Where are you going? Who will tell me what to do?” | ||
'''Teachers''': Ms. Mayer’s news will also be disappointing for teachers, implying as it does that ''none'' of them are where they should be: they disqualify themselves from their | '''Teachers''': Ms. Mayer’s news will also be disappointing for teachers, implying as it does that ''none'' of them are where they should be: they disqualify themselves from their environs either by being ''too'' smart — per [[Mayer’s Law]] — or ''not being smart enough'', it being a founding proposition of modern educational philosophy that one has no real business educating one’s intellectual superiors. | ||
'''Lavatories''': It also means lavatory cubicles, phone booths, priest-holes and small apartments are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> | '''Lavatories & similar''': It also means lavatory cubicles, phone booths, priest-holes and small apartments are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> | ||
From there, readers, it gets only worse. Ms. Mayer seems to urge those in wrong rooms to get out of them. But, since each of the world’s occupied has, by definition, a smartest occupant, ''no'' room on the planet has a stable equilibrium. Occupancy will dwindle, tending quickly to zero. | From there, readers, it gets only worse. Ms. Mayer seems to urge those in wrong rooms to get out of them. But, since each of the world’s occupied has, by definition, a smartest occupant, ''no'' room on the planet has a stable equilibrium. Occupancy will dwindle, tending quickly to zero. | ||