> This really is the recipe for success. The majority of success is intergenerational. I think it's better said that the majority of success is from _iteration

> This really is the recipe for success. The majority of success is intergenerational. I think it's better said that the majority of success is from _iteration_. In lots of ways, I'm not just a product of my parents' (lack of?) success or their parents' (lack of?) success and so on, but also a product of my iterated local communities and iterated larger society. > The stories we should aspire to are the ones of humans setting up future humans for success. Ideally, not even just their children... Be wary of claimed benevolence, for it justifies corpses in the name of the greater good. History has shown that rising tides lift all boats. We are all the product of millennia of selfish pursuits by bigots, rapists, war profiteers, etc. And yet, the long-term trajectory for the masses is up -- because success iterates not just along family lines, but broadly across society.