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>It still hurts to have your dream job undercut by someone else, though. What an absolutely atrocious way to think of your fellow man... If someone else is ge

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > If someone else is getting the job you want instead of you, they worked harder for it than you did. No, that's not a valid generalization. They may have worked less hard and been more talented. They may have worked less hard, been less talented, but had the good fortune to have better social connections. They may have worked less hard, been less talented, but benefit from non-germane status-based discrimination. Or, well, lots of other possibilities.
• jjoonathan 8y ago
  I declare support for a cause dramatically against my own interest but mention that it "still hurts" to do so (on account, you know, of it being against my interest) and you call my feeling an atrocity? It's not enough to merely do the right thing, I must also revel in the pain it causes me? That's sick, it's an atrocious way to think of your fellow man, and it's the very attitude that put Donald Trump in office. > If you want your dream job, you need to be prepared to compete... Your post history suggests you are an American. Unless you are an American PhD student, you are almost certainly benefiting immensely from much stronger protectionism at this very moment, so take your self-righteousness, and stuff it.