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Re:The price students pay for a prized IIT seat by akhilcacharya on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:49PM (#26548467)
That's around my line of thinking, pure meritocracy is both too subjective and far too harsh to the people who aren't in the lucky egg club, especially in increasingly global winner take all games (an inevitable consequence of globalization).

I'm a failure by meritocracy by nature of losing at all of the tests we use to judge success and merit - test scores, elite school admission, elite institutions etc.

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Re:The price students pay for a prized IIT seat by abc_lisper on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:51PM (#26550468)
What do you do now?
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Re:The price students pay for a prized IIT seat by sfashset on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:23AM (#26552046)
he's a SDE at Amazon
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Re:The price students pay for a prized IIT seat by abc_lisper on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:55PM (#26557208)
Why the feeling of failure then ? There is nothing there that is not in your company now. You are not a graded apple to be sold at a store. If you are intelligent you will recognize these are human constructs, and nature/problems don’t recognize your degree - they are available for everyone
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