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In the village, the horse works the hardest. But the horse will never be elected as the chief.
by temp8830 8mo ago
In the village, the horse works the hardest. But the horse will never be elected as the chief.
- krapp 8mo agoHorses tend not to run for office. Because they're horses.
- qgin 8mo agoEveryone knows someone who worked for years on a project only for it to go nowhere. Pour years into a business that failed. Spend years getting a degree that was useless. Effort might be a part of many people's success stories, but it's not the thing that literally gets rewarded. And conversely, many people get rewarded for things that require relatively little effort. I suppose I should have said that the correlation between effort and reward has never been 1.0 and has often been a lot lower than we like to believe.
- temp8830 8mo agoThe same aversion to leadership positions can be seen in most engineers. The difference is: the horse doesn't expect a promotion to happen by itself.