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> Attributing randomness to big successes undermines the hard work that a lot of people go through to get one step up the chain. This is my entire argument. T
by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
> Attributing randomness to big successes undermines the hard work that a lot of people go through to get one step up the chain.
This is my entire argument. There's a much easier way to phrase it though: life's not fair.
- Joe-Z 7y agoTo me "life's not fair" reads as a contradiction to the cited statement. As I understand it GP's argument was that, yes it may have been luck to meet the right people at the right time, but that a lot of conscious decision and discipline went into being in the right position at the right time beforehand. Reading it that way, life is fair, since it rewarded the work previously put into building up a life's success. Another way to say it would be: If facebook hadn't made Zuckerberg a billionaire, something else would have made him at least a huge success (the stellar kinds of successes that people like Zuckerberg experience are probably still insanely unlikely even in the world of billionaires)
- friendlybus 7y agoI don't mean to guarantee success in the face of randomness, but rather to understand and highlight the meaning of making a good decision at the right time, regardless of the fortune or misfortune of luck.
- friendlybus 7y agoLife is fair if you value fairness. In some places it's more important than freedom. Life's not being fair is a US value. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPe_VpvqUxM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPe_VpvqUxM
- foogazi 7y ago>life’s not fair “...and the you die” Not my quote, heard it from a colleague
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoThe full saying: Life's a bitch and then you die. So fuck the world and go get high.