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Ambition
Mounica Veggalam • 1 card
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy,
Barry Ritholtz • How Not to Invest
As a culture, we have a tendency to celebrate status that emerges from net worth and network signaling rather than the work ethic of a second-act founder using his net worth and network, while he grinds on a project, to drive the world forward. This is totally backwards.
Trae Stephens • Choose Good Quests
perfectionism
maia strzygowski • 4 cards
morality
Julie • 1 card
A pure meritocracy, we’d discovered, can only promote; it can’t legitimize. It can confer success but can’t grant knighthood. For that it needs a class beyond itself: the high-born genealogical peerage that aptitude testing was created to overthrow.
Walter Kirn • Lost in the Meritocracy
The natural, moral reaction to the gluttony, sloth, and opulent pride of tech and the coasts is advocating for socialism.
I say that as a capitalist, and am not advocating for socialism here. Hear me out.
The median American income is $39k/yr.
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