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>Some people are more apt, some people are lazy, some just lack ability for what they choose despite all efforts. Perhaps it is just chance that your examples
by GolfPopper 2y ago
>Some people are more apt, some people are lazy, some just lack ability for what they choose despite all efforts.
Perhaps it is just chance that your examples all involve peoples' internal characteristics, but it is a great mistake to eliminate external factors. An energetic, motivated genius born to disease and starvation-level poverty is extremely unlikely to experience the success that a lazy idiot born to great wealth and privilege will.
It's like claiming that how far rocks go when they fall off the mountain depends entirely on how big they are, and that where they came from on the mountain doesn't matter.
- mc32 2y agoSo you're saying what they really mean is finding the the disadvantaged in the upper tail of a normal distribution and giving them an equal footing, not result, but footing. I think _most_ people will agree with that, except we do see some people who for unknown, well we know, but anyway, want to disband and tear down schools for gifted kids and similar programs. I'm afraid it's a disguised version of the anti-intellectualist nature of some people. They don't want education, they don't want success. They want an easy life doing little, maybe a YouTube personality, maybe an influencer, maybe a social activist without having to study much, but I want things to go my way, because. Beck and Foreman, are examples of people, who as kids had absolutely nothing, but succeeded.