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It's amusing to watch lucky people on HN make comments like this (taking their extreme luck for granted and attributing it to hard work) and then watch them get
by jondubois 10y ago
It's amusing to watch lucky people on HN make comments like this (taking their extreme luck for granted and attributing it to hard work) and then watch them get down-voted by equally hard-working people who have the opposite experience.
... And let's not forget that HN is not an accurate representation of society as a whole (HN itself 'suffers' from survivor bias).
- sdflkd 10y ago> It's amusing to watch lucky people on HN make comments like this (taking their extreme luck for granted and attributing it to hard work) and then watch them get down-voted by equally hard-working people who have the opposite experience. It's less amusing when you realize these same arguments are used against minorities/the disadvantaged to keep them down.