Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday August 16, 2012 @11:51PM
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That's the biggest false dichotomy, piled on top of a whopping huge tautology, that I've ever seen.
EDIT: Ok, you deserve more explanation than that. Claiming that "true hustlers" will always succeed is the tautology, because after all, it means someone who doesn't succeed mustn't have been a true hustler. It also sounds like something a drug-dealer says to satisfy their success. "Hustle" is a positively-connoted abstraction that doesn't actually mean much, rather like "work ethic" or "education".
The false dichotomy is the one between "entrepreneurs" on the one hand and mindless 9-5 drones who produce little and deserve nothing on the other. This one is, like "hustle", a very small phrase that wraps up a very large Just So Story people tell themselves to justify their own position in life while dealing with the cognitive dissonance of knowing deserving-seeming people who don't have what they have.
EDIT: Ok, you deserve more explanation than that. Claiming that "true hustlers" will always succeed is the tautology, because after all, it means someone who doesn't succeed mustn't have been a true hustler. It also sounds like something a drug-dealer says to satisfy their success. "Hustle" is a positively-connoted abstraction that doesn't actually mean much, rather like "work ethic" or "education".
The false dichotomy is the one between "entrepreneurs" on the one hand and mindless 9-5 drones who produce little and deserve nothing on the other. This one is, like "hustle", a very small phrase that wraps up a very large Just So Story people tell themselves to justify their own position in life while dealing with the cognitive dissonance of knowing deserving-seeming people who don't have what they have.