If you don't enjoy an exponential unfair-returns success or two, even if minor, you end up the sum total of your rejections and failures.
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i think very very people are lucky enough to get what they've worked for. Most are sold short, given what they can negotiate.
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I think that's irrelevant. Reference is what you think you deserved, not what you think you could have negotiated.
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Narrative angle: luck beyond efforts casts you as a *comic* hero of your own life story. Comic heroes feel like they have guardian angels.
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me me me
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this is troubling, suggests some doomed to be unhappy if there's only finite amount of "luck" (opportunity) to go round. But is there?
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historically luck budget has increased, but within individual lifetimes it's effectively static modulo booms/busts
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main problem is people rationalising unfair luck into "getting what they worked for", so that unlucky people are seen as undeserving
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Why is it “unfair”? Why do we think we assume a linear effort-reward function is the default?
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most of the world's wealth was created by our ancestors, i.e. nonliving persons - but only living can negotiate
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