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>Isn't a part of a person's endowment their ability to work hard and put in effort where it's required, when it's required? No this is largely a malleable set
by sn9 10y ago
>Isn't a part of a person's endowment their ability to work hard and put in effort where it's required, when it's required?
No this is largely a malleable set of traits.
Good teachers can frequently change them in whole populations of students.
- ZeroFries 10y agoGood nutrition can frequently change the height of whole populations. Yet, we say height is part of a person's endowment. One might say potential is largely determined at birth, but how that potential unfolds is determined over the course of an organism's life.
- sn9 10y agoYes but in even the most developed countries, nutrition isn't an issue but sufficiently good educational environments aren't. We're still barely tapping into people's potential, but people still act form arguments on the assumption that we are.