Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory by pembrook on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:07AM (#50391402)

My point was that the "you got lucky or got unfair advantage" narrative that people use to explain why other people are successful and they are not is motivated reasoning.

So it's far more likely these comments are over-indexing on the "its all luck/unfairness" explanation than the "it's all rational" explanation given there's 100X more people who will have their egos protected by the former positioning.

The percentage of executives at an organization to worker bees is like 100:1

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Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory by icantevenhold on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:52AM (#50393018)

Nah I think that almost everything is luck based.

It’s more that the “i work hard and hustle everyday” narrative from successful people is to protect their little egos from the realisation that 90% of their success is pure luck / chance / chaos.

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Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory by pembrook on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:22AM (#50402981)

You didn't confront my core assertion.

Yes, both parties use motivated reasoning to protect their ego.

But there's 100X more of the worker bees than there is of the uber-successful.

Therefore any discussion like this one will over-index on the luck explanation.

We're obviously not at risk of assigning too much competence to successful people here on HN, a leftist internet forum.

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Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory by watwut on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:47AM (#50394799)

And my point was that "no he was not lucky, it was entirely fair with no luck or advantage (and no fraud, lies etc)" narrative is frequently motivated reasoning too.

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