And now he just runs a fucking food bank or some shit? All those STEM adventures for nothing?
a man's environment and his network are more important to financial success than his wits/intellect alone. you can be a genius in the ghetto or a trailer park and never get anywhere because you have no launching pad to realize your potential.
>>219796742Midwit cope.Legitimate geniuses - like Malcolm was on the show - find a way to succeed in any environment.The trope of le genius who ended up a failure was a trope they touched on in the show, but it was evident that Malcolm wasn't going to end up on that route. Everything about this reboot seems like an assassination of the characters and general theme of the show.
>>219796613I knew a girl like him growing up but she ended up being a successful lawyer at a big firm after working as a prosecutor.
wasn't he supposed to become the president of America?
>>219796868You fail to see my point, probably because you're low IQ. I'm saying who you know is more important than what you know, and being born into those kinds of relationships opens many doors that even the brightest people in the world may never see because they're just not connected. Don't feel bad though. We can't all be bright. :^)
>malcom... ... I'm .... gay.... and ... trans
>>219796868The reboot was an excuse for Bryan Cranston to pleasure himself, the dad was a fuck up in the original and they pretend he was some kind of saint in this like he didn’t take every Friday off for a year without his family knowing
>>219796742>he literally takes a test which says he can do anything>he literally outsmarts his max IQ, former government think tank employed teacher, as a middle schooler>he literally has a photographic memory and is a human calculator>he literally instantly understands anything he touches immediately, except creative concepts like music>he literally is offered a six figure salary before graduating by a man who has known him for less than 5 minuteshe could have been anything but heaven forbid they show a young white man succeeding on tv
>>219796965No. Like I said, you are a coping midwit, and don't understand how things work.
>>219797071>zero argumentComment discarded. You don't even try to argue because you literally can't fire up those two neurons long enough to even form a cohesive thought.
>>219796742>and his networkThat and family. A have seen a my share of people who should be wiping the floor with a broom because they are too stupid to do anything else, but are in positions of power instead because of connections.
He's actually a Nascar driver
>>219797136You didn't put forth anything against which to argue. You just made some statements that are patently false, and I called you out.
>>219797049>he could have been anything but heaven forbid they show a young white man succeeding on tvIs this the version of the niggers pestering everyone they are victims but in white?
>>219797049None of that means shit when compared to some guy who is best friends with a CEO of a fortune 500 company even though he slept through college. Malcolm wasn't even likeable or charming.
>>219797326nepotism exists and i benefited from it in my career too but that isnt the point. malcolm's intelligence is enough that he could have punched his way through all of these problems that keep normies down. at the very least he could've done better than managing a food bank charity while being a single father and pining to one day hump another child into a flat black woman but again,>heaven forbid they show a young white man succeeding on tv
>>219796742Absolute freak of nature tier geniuses that at least manage to get noticed enough to be in a program like Malcolm and "highest grades to ever be recorded and makes the rest of the smart kids look like chumps" will not necessarily "succeed" but they would at least be noticed enough to overcome some of the limitation (you won't necessarily have any "network" but you probably really would have a few "suitors" like Malcolm had)
>>219797284>I called you outOf course you did you're such a big boy. Growing up so fast.
>>219797290>I'd be successful if it weren't for all the whites bringing me down>I'd be successful if it weren't for all the jews bringing me downNo, it couldn't be.
>>219796613I'm sure being a single dad in college and keeping your daughter a secret from your birth family would put a damper on your career aspirations.
>>219796965This is not how people who are confident in their intelligence behave.
>>219797586*This is how
>>219797613No, I meant what I said.
>>219797687*what you saidfucked up again sorry
>>219797483He already was doing calculus like a normal college freshman in the finale so they already nerfed him before that excuse
>heaven forbid they show a young white man succeeding on tvit is not about race you dimwit, it is about a relatable character from childhood who was smarter but less lucky/happy than you (the average viewer), finally succeeding in life without all those obstacles like family and bullies, while you probably failed (or why the fuck would you watch a fucking kids show reboot 20 years later).in short, nobody likes a mary sue character
>>219796868>The trope of le genius who ended up a failureThat's not a trope. That's based on actual reality. The smartest man in the world is a mustached retard working a deadend job and trying to work on a theory to present that proves the existence of god. Intelligence is an instrument. If you don't know how to use it, it's worthless.
he was trying to run for president to live up to what he thought were his moms expectationsrunning a big charity to build up cred to run for a lower end public office seat was a step to his plan.
>>219796613His mom did say he'd be fine and end up as a middle-manager or some shit. It was Reese she had to protect.
>Lois admitted she lied about him being president but its okay they do it all the time and that gave her justification to sabatoge him and his high paying jobHoly fuck was Lois always this much of a cunt? In the original series the worst she did was yell but that was only when her boys acted up. Now she's gone full pathological cunt
>>219797395you underestimate how much midwits hate intelligent people.
>>219796613Your environment determines how you end up. and his family is shitty
>>219796742>b-b-but in real lifefucking pathetic and lazy writing excuse
>>219796613What part of "life is unfair" you didn't get?
>>219796742He had a baby daughter as a sophomore, he probably focused on raising her and treated the career as an afterthought.
founding and running a hugely successful national charity is being successful. he's a single dad who owned a home and had his daughter in high end private schooling. dude was doing very well.success isn't just being a coke snorting day trader or sitting on some skunkworks think tank.
>>219798414>Le smartest man in the world is a mustached retard working a deadend job and trying to work on a theory to present that proves the existence of godYou are legitimately retarded if you believe this.
>>219800363ThisHe's comfortably upper middle class. Considering he was sharing a goddamn bed with Dewey until he graduated I feel that's a massive fucking step up
I was identified as gifted intellectually and did incredibly well in school and now I drive a train.
>>219800403Who's the smartest man on the planet? The man with the highest IQ or the man with the biggest bank account?
>>219796613that's his way to break into politics, they literally mention it in the show.he still has a house, a car and a daughter in an expensive private school anyway
>>219796613People like that end up bagging groceries usually
>>219796972God that slow talk shtick is so tedious, I fast forwarded his scenes and missed nothing.
>>219798414That bouncer with a high iq is a clownshoes moron who is spouting schizo bullshit.
>>219799705I remember certain teachers hate contempt for smart students that passed the test.
>>219800565To be fair. I want bright people conducting a train. Did you do the gate program with the headphones?
>>219800578i think he's accusing you of being retarded for believing that langdon dude
>>219796868We can automatically rule out personal experience, so how exactly would you know?
>>219796868>Legitimate geniuses - like Malcolm was on the show - find a way to succeed in any environment.that is not true at all. yes, IQ is a reliable method of estimating a person's future success but it's just that- an estimation. as you get older, i think you'll be surprised how many average or less than average people you'll meet who are able to succeed though hard work, charisma, risk, etc. and how many people who are, on paper, extremely bright who use their intellectual gifts to find revolutionary and inventive ways to destroy their own lives.
>>219796868>find a way to succeed in any environmentLMAO No they don't. They just go into Academia and become tenured professors, largely contributing nothing to society.
The idea that Francis and Piama are only just now starting a family is ridiculous. There was a perfectly good joke in there about Fancis being a strict disciplinarian like his mom and they whiffed it.
yeah i was "smart" in high school getting all a's ap classes honors clsses etc. still meant nothing because i was a socially avoidant loser. studied worthless degree in my miserable college experience. im mid 30s still live at home and have never done a single thing with my life.
>>219796918Its addressed in the show directly. This foodbank charity company he runs is a step to getting into politics.
>>219802476Just becoming a teacher or administration is enough to succeed in the doomsday of American capitalism. Easy work with no physical labor and a guaranteed salary and pension is like hitting the lottery.
>>219801232*had contempt.The teacher's per was rarely the smartest student and more likely the cutest one.
>>219798029I didn't have an IQ of 165 and I related to the show just fine.
>>219799705As someone in pretty much this same situation, I complete understand why any other gifted person nowadays would drop out of modern society to do whatever crazy seeming idea they want to focus on.We live in a state where way more food is produced than what is needed, and where anyone can use a fraction of their paycheck to buy tech that lets them access an enormous library of most of the best works by anyone who did something of note in the past several hundred yeas.If you're on a level where you're beyond caring about normie status for any reason but supporting your own family better, you're naturally going to be more satisfied by giving as little a shit about it as you can in favor of achieving the best and most valuable unique goals you can.
>>219797049They don't want him to be Batman or the president because he is supposed to be a middling every man with relatable problems , his success can only be a series finale
foid in the middle
>>219800416>This>>Considering he was sharing a goddamn bed with Dewey until he graduated I feel that's a massive fucking step upNah that's Hal
>>219799705A lot of people who think of themselves as smart are basically average. Someone like Malcolm would always have the option to be rich. He went to Harvard retard. He could have been a quant at Jane Street at 21 and a multimillionaire within a couple years
>>219805875Its cronyism and elite kleptocracy.
It happens. The salutatorian of my high school (seen here at left with her slightly more successful though recently deceased sister) went on to wait tables in Minneapolis for 20 years and now folds t-shirts at the state fair.
>>219798414LOL
>>219799705Generally speaking, only the legally retarded use the term "midwit" unironically. Probably why it's such a popular term among /pol/troons, that board has the collective IQ of a sea urchin.
>>219801309Langdon has only ever taken the Mega IQ test, which is a fake and gay IQ test, like the online ones. He's never taken a real one, like Stanford-Binet V.
>>219806330>her slightly more successful though recently deceased sister
>>219796613He specifically built a life around: 1) Lois' expectations of him becoming president and 2) staying the fuck away from his family.
how long before this on topic thread gets brigaded by horny brown indians that simp over the tranny white daughter or cynthia? /tv/ simps sicken me
>>219806450Perfect.
>>219798580Lois is genuinely awful, I think the people who try to frame her as one of those "the annoying female character is actually right" types forget she's a terrible person too and feeds into the cycle of her sons being so shitty as much as they do. She's not Rochelle from Everybody Hates Chris bad but she's pretty bad.
>>219797049>he could have been anything but heaven forbid they show a young white man succeeding on tvThey showed the very realistic portrayal and consequences of unchecked uppity women.If your family is shit then that means that means at best all you can do is get out and have a normal life.
>>219799705Public education is this bizzaro diet communist world where the overt power structure is teachers own all the power and your success is measured by being submissive and doing busywork that amounts to nothing, which is where "smart" kids win.Meanwhile, the real power structure in school is how popular and personable you are and how many friends you have, which is where all the "smart" kids fail.Guess which is actually important in the real world.
>>219806967Did umbrella academy steal this scene?
>>219806967kelly is beautiful and we love them
>>219796613running a food bank sounds fairly impressive. sounds like a pain in the ass to me. lots of responsibility.
>>219796742Man there was a literal pajeet that was so fuckin good at math 2 britbongs brought him to Britain and paid for him to go to college just to hear him talk about nerd shitThere are smart people and then there are exceptionally smart people the exceptionally smart ones are never ever ignored they float to the top as easily as hot women marry rich
>>219796613Did you miss the final episode where his mother sabotaged him out of a full scholarship and 6 figure a year job then made him work as a janny?
>>219797049>max IQ, former government think tank employed teacher, as a middle schooleri wish we got to see mr herkabe in this show, underrated character
>>219807698running a food bank is a GED tier job. most of the food banks where I live are run by church volunteers aka bored stay-at-home moms.>>219807744almost none of the successful people i know were "exceptionally smart" people. they're all "normal" smart people who lucked into good networking and insider trading opportunities. the "exceptionally smart" people I know ended up lingering around academia, not really making it financially and toiling in relative obscurity in their niche, perhaps to be remembered as a name on a research paper in a scientific journal nobody will ever read. the only exception was a hyper-autist programmer who got picked up by some finance bros to launch a tangentially AI-related start up and they eventually ended up selling to anthropic or openai or some shit for half a billy.
>>219797049>he literally outsmarts his max IQ, former government think tank employed teacher, as a middle schoolerhe was there to show malcolm what poor decision-making and a shit personality could do to someone as smart as them.
>>219796742I was born in the third world. My dad was a Pediatrician and directed a government hospital at some point, yet we were strapped for cash all our lives. I went to public school and with ZERO EFFORT and all the way through a STEM major I got high grades by doing the minimum effort because the system is built for brownoids, (White minority who is supposed to be the ruling class of the country by the way).
>>219796613midwits have something to prove
>>219808865>I was born in the third world.>White minority who is supposed to be the ruling class of the country by the wayHow's life over in America?
>>219808865very believe comrade
>>219799705>twitter screenshot of a reddit screenshotI will never understand why people here take someone's personal anecdotes like gospel truth as long as it's posted on a completely different site and reposted here via screenshot. The post itself reads more like a midwit seething than a smart person "noticing" that "midwits" are outperforming him. He's posting this on a subreddit for a podcast for starters.>My brother was valedictorianWho cares? Peaking in high school is very common and it's very common for kids who do well in the structured environment of school can't cope with the more chaotic working world. The junkie pornstar who is fucking Ethan Ralph right now was valedictorian and she is now a junkie pornstar fucking Ethan Ralph.>My friend skipped gradesAgain, this is not necessarily a sign of intelligence. It still relies on the structure of school and it very often happens that kids who skip grades burn out faster and would have benefited more from not skipping grades. >went to MIT for mathAnd then what? They're a bartender now so they probably dropped out, and a drop out, even one from MIT, is not a sign of intelligence. Especially since they dropped out to become a bartender, not start a business or work on an invention.The rest of the guy's post is a humble-brag. The two checkmarked clowns acting amazed by the post are even more ridiculous. Being intelligent doesn't automatically mean you have merit and integrity, usually the opposite is true. The ancient Greeks knew this, being smart was seen as a potential for being untrustworthy. You really think the people who built an economy around scams are complete morons?
>>219807744saaaaaal SAAAAAAAAAL
>>219807744Are you talking about the one who went back home after a few years and immediately died of dysentery?
>>219809697he should have left terry alone.
>>219809321>I was born in the third world. My dad was a Pediatrician and directed a government hospital at some point, yet we were strapped for cash all our lives. I went to public school and with ZERO EFFORT and all the way through a STEM major I got high grades by doing the minimum effort because the system is built for brownoids, (White minority who is supposed to be the ruling class of the country by the way).My point is, that the White ruling class of RAPEXICO doesn't let the educated non ruling class have positions of power, because they designed the system in such a way that they have the brownoids with their measle purchasing power to buy in the same 3 conglomerates their Coca-Cola and Bimbo products. Us White educated lower middle class visionaries want to create a Mexico akin to America in her heyday with less gross income inequality... or actually leave this forsaken hellhole for Europe.
>>219801423the thing is Malcolm didn't just have a high IQ, he also had a photographic memory and could do insane calculations in his head
>>219807234There is a bootstrapping problem in the cycle of her behaviour; suddenly getting "harsh" was necessary to rein in Francis from fucking setting the house on fire, but it's also clearly established that she had a feud with him from birth because he was able to thrive without her. So it does suggest that she really does at least subconsciously sabotage her children to keep them under her thumb, even though many times she is "right" because they have that wild streak in them, it's somewhat a case of her "selling the cure" to "what she poisoned them with"Obviously in real life though she'd basically be textbook NPD devouring mother, but for the sake of a sitcom, I suppose you can assume she's not actually intended to be portrayed as "evil" and it's played up to the extreme for laughs
>>219796868Intelligence is an important factor but it's not the only one
>>219796613Who even watches this shitty reboot?
>>219796613He doesn't run a foodbank, he runs a company that acts as the middle man to get food to foodbanks, so he probably makes bank from all of the different supermarkets offloading their shit.
>>219796613I thought he was supposed to become president
>>219807541Unless you consider working in your hometown forever at minimum wage, you need a degree.
>>219810010Its also the American elite who have a vested interest in keeping all of latin america in a destabilized political structure and with a wide disparate income range.
>>219810147>Malcolm in the Middleman
>>219796868>The trope of le genius who ended up a failure was a trope they touched on in the show, but it was evident that Malcolm wasn't going to end up on that route. did we watch the same show? by the end he was portrayed as a resentful neurotic loser that can't even make friends and just seethes impotently all the time. this is exactly the kind of high iq person that ends up a total failure because his lack of character means all that brainpower is spent on self-sabotage. that's what makes the finale idea of him trying to become president so absurd. he has the opposite of "presidential" qualities.
>>219796868How is Malcolm a failure (at least when it comes to career, not interpersonal stuff). Seems like he has a stable job
