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Re:Network Determines Success More Than People Realize by jniedrauer on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:54AM (#19573776)
We don't live in a fair society, and I think we all know that. I would not have experienced the same degree of success if I looked different or had an accent, even if the quality of my work was the same. There's nothing meaningful I can do with that information though.
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Re:Network Determines Success More Than People Realize by ralusek on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:24AM (#19583439)
>"We don't live in a fair society"

I think it's more correct to say that "the state of nature is incredibly unfair, and our society does not perfectly mitigate this."

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Re:Network Determines Success More Than People Realize by TheTruth1234 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @04:40PM (#19576887)
Of course there is ... "I think we all know that" sits, who knows, in the unconscious. Regularly bringing it to the conscious mind, like in this thread perhaps, reminds us of the possibility of making different, better choices should we have that power now, or one day.
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