Okay, the next time a Princeton prof need brain surgery, they can get the last in the class to do it, it’s all the same right?...............
At my company, if you do good work, you will never be promoted.
Management does not want competition for future management jobs and if you are promoted, who will do the work they claim they did?
That’s why you should support communist ideals and judge people based on their class and race.
That’s how you get ahead in life.
Retards.
It’s becoming hard to believe that our civilization will last much longer.
The interesting thing with this is how progressives usually wield science like a bludgeon. The concept of “luck” is a much more dominant point with progressives than they often times let on. They do boil over the fact that one person born in The U.S. to a wealthy family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a poor family.
Yet put luck in a cup. Can you measure it? Is it two millimeters? Is it a half-liter? Is it two gallons of luck? Is it more dense than balsa wood or less dense than uranium? Does luck therefore float? Can you melt it with acid? Etc etc etc.
Science is nothing but a weapon(like everything else) for progressives. The ends justify the means.
Some old thoughts on “luck”:
http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2012/03/examining-john-rawls-from-totalitarian.html
http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2012/07/luck-totalitarianism-and-accidents-of.html
Perhaps Princeton should stop requiring applications and just accept students chosen at random from 12th graders across the country. Then we shall see how the education at Princeton, supposedly superior, will work out.
“By contrast, research on gratitude indicates that remembering the role of luck increases generosity.”
People have replaced the providence and grace of God with luck.
The guy who gets to decide your place in life is your king.
Makes sense... Everyone should give away three fourths of the fruit produced from their own knowledge, skill, and labor.
Why produce anything yourself when you can just take it from those who already did all the work for you?
Mediocrity doesn’t do so great, when compared to meritocracy. But that seems to be the ideal that is being presented as the alternative to rewarding the best and brightest.
It is the exceptional individual that moves and shapes society, society should not be molding the individual to the exclusion of all other “virtues”. Herd mentality can get the world only so far, and must from time to time be deserted, that any improvement ever takes place.
I admit that don’t like LeBron James. Why don’t I like him? He’s too damn lucky. Same with those Olympic athletes. “Look at me! Look at me do gymnastics!” Big deal. She doesn’t fall and hurt herself because she’s lucky.
“A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you”
And the bigger a goof-off you are, the worse it is for you.
This article is, first, a false dilemma, saying that it’s “not true” that rewards come as a result of merit and not luck. Both are important. Second, the article mentions Bill Gates, explaining that lots of programmers were or are as good as Bill Gates was, but only he got rich. They neglect to mention that Gates has the business ethics of a hyena, e.g. racing a GUI to market after being shown one at Apple, before even Apple did. (Yes, perhaps it was foolish of Steve Jobs to have shown it to Gates, but, still it represents outright theft of IP on the latter’s part.) Given how crappy and insecure Microsoft software is, it is difficult to argue they have any programming expertise whatsoever. Instead, all Microsoft has to offer is new and expanded ways of capturing market share and then expanding the imposition of rentier fees on those captured.
At the heart of their argument, is the admission that there are genetic differences between individuals, in the qualities which contribute towards success.
And they hate that.
i guess that’s how cliff got his job...
Whoop dee do.
The solution?
Why Eureka....the solution is SOCIALISM.
Everybody gets the same.( Bunghole the Merit.)
This is Utopian in the extreme.
Merit is whaty oit is all about, wheter ganed via work or luck.
Thats the way karma ( the law of causation and dependent origination) works.
No Socialism or body politic can change the role of merit.Its like the law of gravity. Unavoidable.
You spend a freakin’ fortune on tuition and books only to have them theach you failure, excuses and mediocracy, instead of possibilities and potentials realized.
Find a better place to feed your mind and your spirit real food, instead of that over-priced, soul cancer inducing, mental junk food they’re dishing out.
As a man thinks, so he goes.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
Belief becomes reality, so think better thoughts.
An AA degree from a community college is a far better practical investment than the overpriced 4-year socialist mind meld you’d finance with student loans from a university.
Luck: Recognizing and seizing oportunities as they arise, not wallowing in self pity.
"It's not who you know but who you blow"
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I want my multi-million dollar pro baseball contract!!!!!!!
But keep this in mind: If you take COMPETITION out of the equation, like the Commies want to do, meritocracy is useless and becomes demonstrably false.
Meritocracy actually helps us all and makes us ALL better off. This professor is NOT stupid . . . he is just a committed Commie. . . and his philosophy is GARBAGE.