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You seem to be agreeing the article while taking issue with it. In the comic, "college classmate" is lucky to have known the hiring manager. Luck isn't neces
by Ensorceled 5y ago
You seem to be agreeing the article while taking issue with it. In the comic, "college classmate" is lucky to have known the hiring manager.
Luck isn't necessarily bad or evil, as you point out in this case hiring someone you know is just smart; but it's still just luck.
Height bias, racial bias, gender bias, are all bad reasons to get lucky.
- Sebb767 5y ago> In the comic, "college classmate" is lucky to have known the hiring manager. Well, it also kind of demonstrates the contra-point: The classmate did go to college and use his time there to meet people and form connections. It was still luck he knew the manager (though he might've simply seeked out his connections), but it was definitely possible for him to increase his chances and/or pay off an earlier investment.
- danaris 5y agoBut connections are still orthogonal to skill in the job—unless the job is literally all about making and using connections that will help your company. And believing that college is a place you go to make connections is a mark of being born to privilege. The nominal and most fundamental purpose of college is to get an education: either to improve yourself generally, or to gain skills that you can actually use performing a job. Thus, even between two people who went to college, it is extremely likely that someone who went "to meet people and form connections" was lucky enough that they were born into a privileged family.