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by FatherOfCurses9 hours ago |
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upvoteby littlexsparkee7 hours ago|
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you can fudge it for a while...but not forever. i worry about what kind of message this sends young minds though.
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upvoteby butterbomb9 hours ago|
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This became clear to me over the last few years. We are quickly returning to a world of entrenched social hierarchy where there are lords and peasants and little room even for social mobility.

With the corpse of meritocracy too rotted to deny at this point the elite simply seem to have run out of lies for placating the people.

Or, more likely the people are so sickeningly impotent, that’s there’s no need for the lies anymore. The new aristocracy will prevail over liberalism and everything the west lied of being part of the their values for years.

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upvoteby _DeadFred_6 hours ago|
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The west had been fighting this since it's founding.

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ― Ulysses S. Grant

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upvoteby munificent6 hours ago|
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He was wrong about which side patriotism would end up on.
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upvoteby AtlasBarfed7 hours ago|
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That ultimately happens from entrenched geopolitical situations as well.

However, I think we are entering an age of geopolitical chaos. And that will be a darwinian struggle of functioning governance systems.

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upvoteby qgin8 hours ago|
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Has the world ever rewarded effort?
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upvoteby krapp8 hours ago|
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No. Not once in the entire history of the human race, from the time we were dwelling in caves to today, not in any tribe, village, hamlet, city, state, kingdom or nation, in no culture or circumstance, has effort ever been rewarded.

It's weird that homo sapiens sapiens has been around for approximately 300,000 years and it's never happened once. Not even once.

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upvoteby temp88306 hours ago|
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In the village, the horse works the hardest. But the horse will never be elected as the chief.
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upvoteby krapp6 hours ago|
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Horses tend not to run for office. Because they're horses.
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upvoteby qgin4 hours ago|
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Everyone knows someone who worked for years on a project only for it to go nowhere. Pour years into a business that failed. Spend years getting a degree that was useless. Effort might be a part of many people's success stories, but it's not the thing that literally gets rewarded. And conversely, many people get rewarded for things that require relatively little effort.

I suppose I should have said that the correlation between effort and reward has never been 1.0 and has often been a lot lower than we like to believe.

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