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Attributing something to luck sounds like a lazy cop out, sorry. We just had an article on the front page yesterday about “increasing your luck”. If you need t
by lijok 10mo ago
Attributing something to luck sounds like a lazy cop out, sorry.
We just had an article on the front page yesterday about “increasing your luck”.
If you need to be lucky in meeting the right people, you can increase your chances by spending your evenings in the your nearest financial district watering hole. We’ve easily established luck can be controlled for, which puts us back into skill territory.
What specifically must one luck out on? Have you tried?
- ceejayoz 10mo ago> Attributing something to luck sounds like a lazy cop out, sorry. Everyone one of us here has an unbroken line of lucky (lucky enough!) ancestors stretching back a billion years or so. Pretending it's not a thing is silly. When you're born matters. Where you're born matters. Who you encounter matters. etc. etc. etc. > What specifically must one luck out on? Have you tried? I think perhaps we have different definitions of luck.
- lijok 10mo agoNo, I think we have a similar definition of luck, but I think you’ve succumbed to a defeatist attitude. You have to be pretty unlucky to be permanently locked out of becoming a CEO, and if you’re dealt those cards, moaning about it on an online forum would be way down in your list of priorities.
- ceejayoz 10mo ago> You have to be pretty unlucky to be permanently locked out of becoming a CEO… Sure, but that's not what's being asserted. I am not "permanently locked out" of megacorp CEO roles; I'm just vanishingly unlikely to get one. There are lots of people who have enough singing/dancing skill to be a mega popstar like Taylor Swift. There just aren't enough slots. Could I become the next Steve Jobs? Maybe! I'd have to get really lucky.
- satvikpendem 10mo agoNo one said anything about megacorps though, just CEOs.
- ceejayoz 10mo agoNo one except the article we're all (theoretically) discussing, titled "CEOs are hugely expensive", citing "the boards of BAE Systems, AstraZeneca, Glencore, Flutter Entertainment and the London Stock Exchange" as examples in the introductory paragraph.
- satvikpendem 10mo agoNow read the rest of the article. It talks about CEOs in general, not just megacorp ones, even if it does use megacorp CEOs in the intro. It is asking a general question of whether the role of a CEO should be automated. Articles often start with a hook that is related but does not wholly encompass the entirety of the point of the article.
- ceejayoz 10mo ago> Now read the rest of the article. I did. > It talks about CEOs in general, not just megacorp ones, even if it does use megacorp CEOs in the intro. This does not accurately describe the article.
- satvikpendem 10mo agoWell if we're deriving different conclusions from the same article, then there is probably not much else to talk about.
- lijok 10mo agoThen why were you bringing up conditions of ones birth? Vanishingly unlikely to get one if you try, or vanishingly unlikely to get one if you sit on your ass all day? I assume you’re talking about the former and yet I don’t think you’ve thought this through. I think you’ve blindly attributed to luck what actually requires time, perseverance, grit, lack of morality. The only way to figure that out is for you to offer up your understanding of what one must luck out on?
- throw4r3swwe 10mo agoExactly, as a multimillion lottery winner, it upsets me so much when people say I won because of luck. I played every single day, and I played at different locations. I also made sure I performed my pre-ticket rituals which I learned from other lottery winners. Other people could have done the same. It’s absolutely a skill issue.
- lijok 10mo agoYou picked the lottery you played, on which day, with what buyin, where you bought the tickets from. Did you not?