Re:Amazon's German Workers Strike
by jodrellblank on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:31PM
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"My great grandfather won the lottery, therefore anyone who tries can". And by implication, anyone who doesn't wasn't trying.
For every story of your great grandfather, how many people spent all their money to get to America but it was actually a con and the boat trip they bought wasn't real? How many arrived in New Orleans and couldn't toil as a worker because they couldn't get a job? How many bought into a different idea and went to France to seek a new start and got killed in the War? Or Russia? Or Japan? How many arrived in New Orleans, toiled as a grocery store worker for years before being fired and left unemployed? How many toiled for years before injury left them helpless? How many tried to learn a foreign language but didn't have the mental ability to do it? How many tried to start a store in another town but picked a shitty town and went bankrupt? Or picked an industry with a ruthless competitor who put them out of business with illegal means?
How many of the German population tried to do something like the above? And how many of those hit on good things to try and good ways to go about them? And how many of those were successful?
That fraction of a percent is your model for how everyone should live?
If you only consider that "successful people worked hard" and conclude "hard work leads to success" then you are misunderstanding the nature of the world.
Hard work leads towards success but success, however it's normally defined, is a filter that excludes most people trying for it.
For every story of your great grandfather, how many people spent all their money to get to America but it was actually a con and the boat trip they bought wasn't real? How many arrived in New Orleans and couldn't toil as a worker because they couldn't get a job? How many bought into a different idea and went to France to seek a new start and got killed in the War? Or Russia? Or Japan? How many arrived in New Orleans, toiled as a grocery store worker for years before being fired and left unemployed? How many toiled for years before injury left them helpless? How many tried to learn a foreign language but didn't have the mental ability to do it? How many tried to start a store in another town but picked a shitty town and went bankrupt? Or picked an industry with a ruthless competitor who put them out of business with illegal means?
How many of the German population tried to do something like the above? And how many of those hit on good things to try and good ways to go about them? And how many of those were successful?
That fraction of a percent is your model for how everyone should live?
If you only consider that "successful people worked hard" and conclude "hard work leads to success" then you are misunderstanding the nature of the world.
Hard work leads towards success but success, however it's normally defined, is a filter that excludes most people trying for it.