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So to sum it up, it is never an individual's fault, but rather the environment acting on him.

• jodrellblank 4y ago
  Trying to frame it in terms of "fault" and "excuses" is petty and unproductive. If 9/10 startups fail, is it "your fault" if your startup fails? You could have picked a better idea, executed faster, gained more skill, done more product-market fit testing, pivoted sooner, charged more, marketed more, AHA! Gotcha! Here's where it's YOUR FAULT and now we've correctly allocated FAULT, we can ... what? Imagine if you only learned from the experience that you need more revenue sooner instead of using the most fun tech, but you hadn't had it beaten into you that it was YOUR FAULT, that would be ... unfair, right? We'd all be missing an opportunity to put you in your place which you clearly deserve by circular reasoning of being at fault. Plus it makes us feel better because if it's your fault, that means you weren't crushed by enormous imbalanced forces so that won't happen to us. If nobody can resist the $4Bn/year CocaCola advertising spend on every media platform going, maybe I can't either. But if you're just weak, then I maybe can.