This would be better for reddit given the HN predeliction towards pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstrap survivor bias and Ivy/Stanford/MIT population. Skills are a

This would be better for reddit given the HN predeliction towards pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstrap survivor bias and Ivy/Stanford/MIT population. Skills are a footnote in accompishment. Smart people are a dime a dozen. It’s rarely what you know vs who you know. And the guy with the Stanford ring probably knows a lot more players and has more of the social skills and presentable self awareness required to make it big. Alas, from your article, Asian Americans apparently don’t know their place in America’s “meritocracy” and need to stay out of the way of white quotas.