Earn/deserve 2x2
Earned and deserved: admired leader in legit institution
Earned but not deserved: leadership in corrupt and reviled institution
Not earned but deserved: holy warrior taking over a corrupt and reviled institution
Not earned, not deserved: carpetbagger leader
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interesting i had previously only considered earning in the context of a contract, like 'earned' implied 'deserved', though now i'm thinking you can 'earn' and not 'deserve' through an extracontractual outlay of effort
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lol i am not jurisdictionally equipped to adjudicate on that ;)
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I earned the right to an opinion but according to half the US don’t deserve one (oddly enough mostly the same half that thinks she didn’t)
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i was actually thinking like, if you 'succeed' in a purely darwinian sense but it unambiguously cost you something, that position could be 'earned', and the issue of whether it was 'deserved' would be irrelevant

