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That's a really good piece of pseudo philosophy: a soup of really good insights generously peppered with ignorance. It's worth reading for those good bits. > m
by akomtu 5y ago
That's a really good piece of pseudo philosophy: a soup of really good insights generously peppered with ignorance. It's worth reading for those good bits.
> many smart people have mistaken their own unearned gift for some kind of moral virtue
The root of this "genetical lottery" belief is the dogma that people are created at birth, like a big lego constructor. In the back of their mind, however, people secretly think otherwise; it shows when they say "if I was born in a rich family, I would..."