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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by esperent on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:55AM (#24869510)
> if it doesn't that is okay too.

So for people who find themselves going into dept slavery, unable to feed themselves and their children well, unable to afford healthcare, and so on, you're saying it's all good, just a bad roll of the dice, nothing to worry about?

Seems to me more like the system is fundamentally broken if pure chance is all that seperates a millionaire and the destitute and downtrodden.

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by engineer_22 on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:24AM (#24869818)
-> Seems to me more like the system is fundamentally broken...

What assumption have you made about the system's purposes and functions? This is an important question and one we are currently wrestling with as a society. It's one of the BIG QUESTIONS and hard to answer. Plato's Republic might be a good starting place.

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by ivanhoe on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:35AM (#24877800)
I think OP meant that it's OK to be middle class mediocre, nothing especially bad or shameful about it. Being poor is the other extreme of the system - just like good luck and smart decisions can make you rich, bad luck and stupid moves can make you poor. I don't think that anyone argued that society shouldn't reduce the risks and provide a safety net for poor people. Also IMHO for social stability it's important that system slowdowns both of these tendencies, not let people get extremely poor, but also not extremely rich over the night.
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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by pengstrom on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:14AM (#24869706)
Yes, hence the widespread criticism of capitalism.
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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by adwn on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:51AM (#24870072)
> Yes, hence the widespread criticism of capitalism.

Social classes and social immobility are millenia-old phenomena and are completely independent of capitalism.

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by sunshinerag on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:52AM (#24870089)
capitalism? you mean socialism?
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