| As incredibly gifted, talented, intellectual, and intelligent as many of the fine people in the community are technically it boggles my mind how naive the average HNer seems to be about social intelligence. This whole "meritocracy" thing is an incredibly effective marketing tool to get people from all over the world to move to an overpriced, dilapidating part of the world, with poop in the streets everywhere to sacrifice part of their lives to try to make something that matters. If you fail at your own hopefully you impress some people who didn't enough you get to work with them. If you don't you wash out. The meritocracy its true but you have to either 1. have been born a mega genius 2. been raised in a wealthy well connected family 3. be a sociopath who manipulates everyone around you into doing your bidding 4. fake it til you make it and make the right friends along the way 5. Or struggle and toil until you figure out how to do one of the previous This game is hard and lots of people don't win. You can be jealous but don't say the system doesn't work when so many multi billion dollar companies have been created this way. Survival of the fittest. |