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Re: by kiba on Monday January 15, 2024 @09:32AM (#39001366)
If you grow up poor and aren’t willing to pledge fealty to the right causes, these places don’t want you. If you grew up poor, remake your fortunes, and then speak truthfully about the factors that fuel success (hard work, determination, sacrifice) rather than the factors elites speak about (luck, systemic forces, privilege), then these places don’t want you.

To pretend that luck, systemic forces, and privileges has nothing to do with your success (or weighing against your success) is frankly incorrect.

To be sure, they aren't totally determinate. No single factor is going to make you a success or a 'failure'. As a youtuber put it and I paraphrased, "all you can do is play the best god damn game you can". If you win, you win. If you lose, at the very least you tried your best.

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Re: by paulpauper on Monday January 15, 2024 @09:37AM (#39001431)
Luck and connections matter a lot. Ivy League schools are so competitive for this reason, for those invaluable connections and opportunities they open.
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Re: by kiba on Monday January 15, 2024 @09:43AM (#39001510)
Frankly, elites who said that luck and connection are opportunities are just saying the truth. Otherwise, the elite would just say hard work and personal effort every time to perpetuate a false narrative. That's just not how the world work.
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Re: by camillomiller on Monday January 15, 2024 @09:34AM (#39001387)
I think that the harder the chance that you could "survive", the harder the survival bias you'll be subject to.
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