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- **FALSEHOOD: "Professional programmers are good programmers"**: The opposite is true, professionals are those who get paid for writing the [shittiest code](capitalist_software.md) imaginable, their aim is to make things quickly, satisfy metrics, they destroy and rape technology for profit and adhere to corporate [bullshit](bullshit.md). No skill beyond literacy is needed to do what they do, that's why we call them code monkeys, they don't and even cannot see programming as [art](art.md), they see it as something to be exploited for making living. Actual good programmer cannot psychologically bear doing this, so you cannot be a good and professional programmer at the same time, not in [21st century](21st_century.md).
- **FALSEHOOD: "Rich people are smart and vice versa"**: It's the other way around, see [IQ](iq.md).
- **FALSEHOOD: "Some celebrities are good people"**: Celebrities, nearly by definition, can never be good people. A lot of people seem to acknowledge that most celebrities are probably assholes, but almost everyone has that one favorite celebrity he thinks is "different", an "exception" -- it ought to be said there are no exceptions among celebrity assholes, in the same sense and by same principles by which there exist no ethical [corporations](corporation.md) or altruistic billionaires. Fame is a kind of [capital](capital.md) that's being [fought](fight_culture.md) for, it's impossible to get a celebrity status without active effort, a fight which ALWAYS comes with taking unethical steps, therefore only immoral individuals can ever become celebrities. Being known for exceptional abilities is one thing, but being a celebrity -- e.g. having one's face being shown to others frequently -- is another thing which has nothing to do with being good at something, it's solely about building one's image, taking opportunities, exploiting the system, being in right places (something that actually becomes the focus of said individual before getting better at his art). If a good man has an opportunity to become celebrity, he will willingly turn it down exactly because he is good and knows that being a celebrity is bad. So no, your celebrity is not special, he's an asshole like all other celebrities. Never worship [celebrities](hero_culture.md).
- **FALSEHOOD: "Rational arguments, logic and civilized discussions are a superior tools capable of refuting or proving most things."** This stuff only work as long as we're firstly discussing things within boundaries of rationality and have sufficient data and tools of proofs (i.e. basically never), secondly if both sides in addition to that have truth as highest priority before anything else (nowadays never the case, priority is some other goal, mostly self interest -- it is always the case that if one doesn't ever want to be proven wrong, he can't be proven wrong) and thirdly if both sides understand rationality, can use it efficiently and agree on what rationality even is (which axioms to accept, which methods of proof are acceptable etc., all of which are irrational choices by the way).
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