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Re:Really rich people are suddenly paying quite a bit more i... by gnaritas on Thursday December 31, 2015 @01:14AM (#10816485)
> You're promoting the false narrative that if someone does better in life it is just chance and nothing

That's a straw-man, I didn't say it's "just" chance and it's called a fallacy, not a narrative, and it's a fact, not false. It's a cognitive bias all humans have to attribute their success to their own efforts, and that's what's false.

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Re:Really rich people are suddenly paying quite a bit more i... by isolate on Thursday December 31, 2015 @01:30AM (#10816516)
Reality is somewhere between the two positions being argued.
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Re:Really rich people are suddenly paying quite a bit more i... by gnaritas on Thursday December 31, 2015 @11:55AM (#10818397)
Reality is those biases exist, and chance plays a far greater role in everyone's lives than most like to admit; that's a fact. The just world fallacy is a fact. Survivorship bias is a fact. These are not debatable points, they're truths and they're true regardless of opinions to the contrary.
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