I hear there are arguments for the thesis of the high greedeenness / productivity of the SV people. What strikes me is the everlasting ability to pick some fact

I hear there are arguments for the thesis of the high greedeenness / productivity of the SV people. What strikes me is the everlasting ability to pick some facts to build a narattive. 'cause I hear you. Living in Paris, France, I could complain about the same thing. How you end up consumed by your lifestyle with nothing to show up for in your late thirties despite your top 10% career. Still, my preffered theory about why SV works is that European middleage adventurers went west, up to California. And that the hippie movement with drug-induced introspection moved some people enough to motivate others to build their dreams, which is currently happening under our eyes. That's just another narrative. You have to pick your facts. Both may well be true. Or simplistic as well. Lévi-Strauss taught me I shall not pretend being an observer of the world I live in so we might ultimately never know why SV "works". Let's focus on the how, and dream of the why.