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Re:It’s better to be born rich than gifted by Qworg on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:10PM (#18210284)
In the societal sense, it is maladaptive - your CIO friend assumes that his friends deliver the best outcome.
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Re:It’s better to be born rich than gifted by adventured on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:48PM (#18210425)
That's not what the friend is assuming per the wording.

The friend seems to be plainly stating they don't care if the max outcome is what is occuring or not, insofar as they all at least do better. Helping their friends out is more important than maxing out the quality of the outcome.

Societally, reinforcing and protecting social trust systems may be dramatically more important than maxing out business success outcomes.

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Re:It’s better to be born rich than gifted by lotsofpulp on Saturday October 13, 2018 @07:27PM (#18210546)
I don’t see how that can be true. Tribally, it might be (for a small tribe in a large group). Society wide, it’s definitely bad. I don’t want a bridge built by an uncle politician who “trusts” his nephew engineer’s company. Outcomes should (and do) result in trust, not the nepotism.
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