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My school and work experience span working class coal power plant techs (a friend used to climb through exhaust channels) to Ivy League educated lawyers and founders. Most people’s career trajectory will be set by the time they are in high school, so the importance of secondary school education and resources of your parents is paramount. Also, wealth from family of origin allows risk taking, funding for law or medica…
My school and work experience span working class coal power plant techs (a friend used to climb through exhaust channels) to Ivy League educated lawyers and founders. Most people’s career trajectory will be set by the time they are in high school, so the importance of secondary school education and resources of your parents is paramount. Also, wealth from family of origin allows risk taking, funding for law or medica…
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
You should read The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits: https://www.themeritocracytrap.com/
The author is actually a Yale Law Professor, and the book came out about a month ago.
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
My school and work experience span working class coal power plant techs (a friend used to climb through exhaust channels) to Ivy League educated lawyers and founders. Most people’s career trajectory will be set by the time they are in high school, so the importance of secondary school education and resources of your parents is paramount. Also, wealth from family of origin allows risk taking, funding for law or medica…
What is the risk associated with a medical degree? It seemed to be the default path for risk averse middle class kids with science talent.
If for some reason you don’t make it through Med or Law school, it’s not like they forgive the debt.
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
I found the link on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20191023044540/https://law.yale.... If one is to feel good about meritocracy, it is that the ambitious, talented and hardworking have the greatest chance of changing the system for everyone's shared benefit.
If only there was evidence to support that assertion.
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
I found the link on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20191023044540/https://law.yale.... If one is to feel good about meritocracy, it is that the ambitious, talented and hardworking have the greatest chance of changing the system for everyone's shared benefit.
If only there was evidence to support that assertion.
It seems to me that this pileup against meritocracy is primarily about personal rewards, and not about utility to society.
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
Their cohort effectively sets the vision for American legislation and justice. You may not be interested in them, but they're interested in you.
[1] https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1181004566088814594
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...