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>And now you've told the people in the low numbered arrays that they deserve all the crap they're getting. Well, a privileged upper array member to feel that w
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>And now you've told the people in the low numbered arrays that they deserve all the crap they're getting.
Well, a privileged upper array member to feel that way is somewhat tolerable.
The worst for me is when some idiot from the lowest numbered arrays, by an enormous combination of factors (which he mostly attributes to his "hard work" and "effort"), jumps several levels up, and then assumes that everybody can do it, and the other lower levels are just lazy slobs for not becoming rich themselves...
- JulianMorrison 14y agoYeah. Although the thing that model warns is that even if everybody was perfect on merit - smart, educated, adaptable, personable, hard working and lucky - only the same percentage of them will rise. All merit gives you in this rat race is first call on the opportunity to rise. Of course this is an over-simplified model. In real life the stratification of society is a bit flexible. A great many people could rise to CEO without saturating the demand. But by no means everybody.