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Well that is the thing - it isn't granted by us or even talent but by the connection to the resources of others and the benefits - not all of them material. Ma
by Nasrudith 7y ago
Well that is the thing - it isn't granted by us or even talent but by the connection to the resources of others and the benefits - not all of them material.
Many of them even if they suffered full fledged "flee a homicidal government and start with nothing" would have immaterial assets like education and experience running large organizations to gain wealth and rise up again.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoYou’re right, but all of this flows from perceived status. Status is not immutable. Stanford was not the elite institution it is today in the 1940s for instance.