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   gmwilliamsposted 4 years ago

   
   In theory, socioeconomic success depends upon hard work.  According to theory, success is based solely upon pure meritocracy.  Theory furthermore expounds that if one is qualified, h/she will succeed no matter what background h/she comes from.  However, in REALITY, socioeconomic success depends upon these three factors: (1) being born into/having the CORRECT/RIGHT background, (2) interfacing w/the RIGHT people &/or having the RIGHT friends/associates, and last of all, (3) likeability.  Meritocracy is no longer relevant in terms of socioeconomic success.  What are your thoughts on the subject?

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      Castlepalomaposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      My daughter re taught me, it's
      better to work smarter rather to harder and longer.
      I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after , it's immoral if you feel bad. Both my daughter and I are artist. Being Unique is one way of making money and flighting the competition is a harder way. Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
      
      Best to go for the right thing as you think it and regret it tomorrow The worst thing, you can do is nothing.
      
      Is right so Black or white. As an adult more things fall into wrong and some fall into right. Is it childish to think most things in the world aren't either? Or am I a universal child and the world is my family when I think most things in the world aren't black or white, most of everything is just different. Nothing wrong with being different. Most of my greatest achievement came  accidentally or mistakes.

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      lovetherainposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Yet you always claim being poor is the persons own fault. So, which is it?

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         gmwilliamsposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         I am talking reality here.  In this postmodern society, meritocracy means little to nothing.  Those who are socioeconomically successful were born into the right families who can provide them w/educational & socioeconomic opportunities.  They also have the right friends & other connections who can give them jobs, especially fast-track jobs.  They are also likeable to their superiors.   There is no such thing as meritocracy anymore- it died in the 1980s.

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            Castlepalomaposted 4 years agoin reply to this

            Sounds like a hell of alot of brown nosing. Don't bow down to any bully or they will own you.  Luckily my imagination and superpower of sticktoativeness keept me ahead of their game.
            
            To avoid poorness has more to do with keeping with your own desires,  focus, and how you get along with others, rather than what happens exteriorally.
            
            Born in Canada, a wildcard artist. Taught dozens how to be a professional artist. It's possible to herd cats if you treat them right.  Even when Trump tried to unionize my artist.

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   MizBejabbersposted 4 years ago

   I used to naively think that a person could get as good an education at a state university as they could get at a big name university like Yale or Harvard. Then I got to thinking about how successful the Yalies and Harvards, et al were financially over the ones who stayed in the state. I saw the big namers, including poor kids who happened to luck in, making sometimes 10 or more times more money and advancing into good national jobs whereas the locally educated rarely got out of mid-level management or small-town upper level management. These guys and gals with the unreal student loans were actually making the money to pay them off. The results seemed to be relative to their educations.
   I realized then that the big university graduates got two things that the locals didn't get:  1. better exposure to the world and 2. better contacts. After that they usually were on their own, although some really undeserving people were successful.
   An example, my former boss has two boys, one graduated from a state university and found his niche in a retail business in another state, whereas the other boy graduated from a big U and got a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford then he went on to a doctorate from Yale. Today he is a respected political science professor at Yale. I think the difference here was in the interests and ambitions of the two boys. I will say that they both seem very happy with what they are doing.

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      wildernessposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      You're right - they get both better contacts and better exposure.  And most of them have Mom and Dad's pocketbook propping them up to boot.  The chances of being financially successful go way up with an ivy league degree.
      
      But none of those things indicate a better education.  Just far better PR.

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         Castlepalomaposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         My daughter went to the top 3 art colleges for animation in the Country.
         I went to the University of Southern California for 3D animation and I knew more than my teachers.
         
         My daughter ending following my foot steps and follow my suggestion to hookup with as many top veterans in the business and she did. After 10 years she is now international known.

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