Re:Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will l...
by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:51AM
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Genetic or learned behavior?
The behaviors that help you successfully move between lower rungs may (spoiler: they do) hinder you at higher rungs.
Re:Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will l...
by nitrogen on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:11AM
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I'm inclined to agree with this, but could you elaborate on some of these behaviors? The ones that come to my mind are punctuality and subservience. Absolutely critical for a bottom-tier laborer, but nobody is upset if the CEO is late for a meeting.
Re:Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will l...
by simiones on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:04AM
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> We should expect Bill Gates to be much more intelligent, conscientious, and to have much better impulse control than typical people living in a trailer park.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Even if there are genes for success, being successful is not proof of having those genes, and being unsuccessful is not proof of not having them.
Furthermore, if we assume that someone swapped Bill Gates' baby with a baby born in a trailer park, do you truly think that Bill Gates' genetic child will have a much better chance at success than the child Gates raised as his own?
That’s only if you assume there isn’t a generic component to traits that influence (broadly defined) success. But of course that’s not true.
We should expect Bill Gates to be much more intelligent, conscientious, and to have much better impulse control than typical people living in a trailer park. Ditto for many other traits. Therefore it’s much more likely that his children posses these traits compared to children born in trailer parks.