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You do realize there's arguably at least two billion people who through no fault of their own will never, ever succeed, no matter how hard they try? You're bor
by astrodust 8y ago
You do realize there's arguably at least two billion people who through no fault of their own will never, ever succeed, no matter how hard they try?
You're born in the middle of Tibet as a persecuted ethnic minority. You're on a tiny island nation with no economic future. You're from a part of Africa that's seen nothing but civil war interspersed with famine.
You can do everything right but the deck is so stacked against you there's no winning move.
- weberc2 8y agoI don't care to generalize the principle outside of the western world. A valid generalization probably exists, but the terms are already so abstract that I doubt it's possible to have a meaningful conversation. Yes, there are a vanishingly tiny fraction of people in the western world who will do everything right and still fail, and a similar fraction who will do everything wrong and still succeed; however, they're the exceptions that prove the rule.