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> Life is not fair, and you can't fix it. I don't think the fatalistic attitude towards changing the system is any more (or, as much as I hate to admit it, les
by zenhack 7y ago
> Life is not fair, and you can't fix it.
I don't think the fatalistic attitude towards changing the system is any more (or, as much as I hate to admit it, less) reasonable than the "you could be Steve jobs too." Odds for both are pretty bleak, albeit non zero.
As advice to an individual in a rotten system, "make the most of what you've got" is fair enough. But when folks talk about politics they're not usually fishing for personal career advice. So when you bring this up in that context, either you've missed the point, or you're trying to distract folks from the issue at hand.
- WalterBright 7y agoI use the Steve Jobs example because everybody knows about him, and his life is well documented. You don't have to build a trillion dollar company to be nicely successful, but using a nicely successful person as an anecdote is impractical because they are not public figures. But they are still all over the place, in plain sight. It's well within an ordinary person's ability to become one.