Many if not most of the problems of causality raised by social science and public health are in fact present in our own evaluations of our personal life course: what to attribute to personal biological predisposition, social context, economic advantage, current year, age, & luck.
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The irony is the people who thrive in our current system accept explanations that prioritize aggregate forces of markets and institutions in principle while rejecting them mercilessly when applied to themselves and their families,on whom they turn a relentlessly behaviorist lens.
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Meritocratic systems reward those (luckily) predisposed to discount the importance of luck, both prospectively (effort) and retrospectively (credit).
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They also conflate virtue with merit and so encourage the view that success is driven by hard work not providence
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