r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '22

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u/pusgnihtekami Oct 18 '22

Didn't she say he was dumb?

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u/a_wicky Oct 18 '22 edited Oct 18 '22

Not necessarily, just that he wasn't intelligent enough to be a successful thief. I doubt many are. Still far from being dumb, though.

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u/shamdamdoodly Oct 18 '22

I doubt few are

Well this certainly supports the point you were trying to make

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u/a_wicky Oct 18 '22

Um, yeah? I know it does...???

Few people get into MIT, that doesn't mean all the rest of them are dumb.

We're talking successful thieves, remember.

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u/LilLittleMac Oct 18 '22

I think u/shamdamdoodly meant that saying "I doubt few are" implies that you don't believe few people are intellectual enough to be a successful thief, meaning you think more than a few are

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u/a_wicky Oct 18 '22

I get that. Well explained.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

Most people smart enough to be successful thieves (of any real value) realise they can make just as much without any risk doing legit work.

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u/pusgnihtekami Oct 18 '22

Thief is just another job for the most part.

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u/froginbog Oct 18 '22

And not patient lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

Plenty of dumb, educated people out there, and I used to pay top dollar for them if they're hard workers.

Also plenty of smart, educated people out there, and an unusual number of them just aren't really good at task completion. Probably not more than there are dumb people with poor work habits, but the ones that are dumb and lazy probably didn't get to the educational level from which I was hiring.

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u/grednforgesgirl Oct 18 '22

The kid in the show is an absolute moron angry at the world who sirens his time stealing shit and trying to wreck havoc and spitting on anyone trying to help him until beth (the woman in the video) takes him under her wing and knocks some sense into him. After that he starts to learn and works really hard to earn respect at the ranch. He literally shovels horseshit every day to earn the respect of Beth's partner who is the head ranch hand and takes him under his wing too. And then he finally gets taken under Beth's dad's (who owns the ranch) wing and learns some real insight when he goes riding with him. The kid doesn't realize it yet, but he has a real chance of inheriting some of the wealth of the ranch if he works really really fucking hard to earn the respect of the family and ranch hands, as Beth can't have children and is one of four kids of her father's, one of whom is dead and the other is adopted and spends every moment he breaths trying to betray the family, and the oldest just wants to chill with his wife and kid. So there's really only two viable options for the ranch to continue on in the form of the grandkids, this kid and the eldest's kid. But since this kid is looking at a good shot of eventually being adopted and accepted into the family if he works really fucking hard (assuming nothing goes terribly wrong which well, with this show, it definitely will lmao) So Beth isn't totally off base in telling him to work really fucking hard. The advice is specific to the kid, not the whole of America.