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Meritocracy Is Dead

Meritocracy Is Dead

well, not dead, but it ain't healthy, neither

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Oct 04, 2022
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Continuing with meditations on luck, which I started here.

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“Wheel never stops turning, Badger.” “That only matters to the people on the rim.” -Firefly, ep 1, currently on Tubi I’ve been thinking a lot about luck lately. My own, and other people’s. The metaphor of the Wheel of Fortune captures the ups and the downs, but not the mix. We can have both good and bad luck at the same time. I’m gainfully employed, do…
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Talent vs. Luck

There are obviously lots of factors that contribute to a person’s success, in the narrow financial sense.

There’s a live, inter…

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