I mean, just look at HackerNews.
The system is rigged and hard work is no predictor of success
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Re: The system is rigged and hard work is no predictor of success
#32This feels like an ivory tower take. I worked at a job reentry program. The difference in outcomes between those working hard and those not looked pretty stark to me. Ignore the billionaires. Focus on what you can control.
What parts of the hard work did you see as most effective in improving outcomes?
>What parts of the hard work did you see as most effective in improving outcomes?
I'll answer for me it's a situation where more effort translates to more progress.
Whether it's progress toward success or away from failure, and whether the success or failure are financial or not.
So I like to work to build a situation like that so that further effort pays off the most.
Re: The system is rigged and hard work is no predictor of success
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
But maybe you should also be able to live a stable and fulfilling life while being a factory worker or a tradesman. There was a time when that was possible. Not everybody can be a banker or a rocket scientist.
Absolutely, I love building complex technical systems but I'm also an pretty kick ass carpenter and mechanic and I'd probably prefer that to carrying a pager if it was easy to raise a family in the city with either gig. Even in the projects, getting good trades jobs is a problem, because you don't have that network.
Maybe my comment was poorly phrased. What I meant is: we arrived to a point where wealth is so much concentrated that, without connection to the happy few, life is miserable for regular folks. It should not be the case. You should be able to live in a relatively modest neighborhood and still go by because people living around you have enough money to hire you as a plumber or whatever. Working class folks' network is always going to be other working class folks.
Wealth is being concentrated in fewer hands and it is slowly destroying middle-class society fabric which modern liberal* democracy is based on (* as in 18th century liberal).
Not everybody can live in the hamptons.