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Except of course he only really provided examples of “gifted” people breaking through. I’m not gifted and have the college diploma to prove it - where does he t

• sokoloff 6y ago
  I'm not even sure your argument here is in good faith, but I'll take one more shot at it. Holding a 4-year bachelors degree puts you in about the top 1/3rd in academic outcomes (meaning you personally are 50/50 to be in the top 1/6th). It's not for me nor anyone else to define your ceiling, but I would expect based on the limited data presented and, to the extent that academics is a predictor of outcome, that your outcome would be quite likely to be above the average. That you're engaged on news.yc is another generally positively correlated term I would think.
• esotericn 6y ago
  You're the one talking about ceilings. His point is that true social mobility would be literally hitting the random button repeatedly. It's obviously not a workable idea. Someone has to lose, even if you perform a magical full reset once per year, in any given year half of the people will be below average. The goal of course is that we make sure that everyone has a decent life even if they're not at the top. I think you've jumped on his comment and assumed that he doesn't care at all about anyone who's not in the top N% which isn't a charitable reading.