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I don't believe I'm against anything with my comment or supporting anything.

I'm just not interested in feel good fantasies people telling themselves to keep going and others to exploit them. I'm just spreading awareness that where and when you are is more important than who you are, what you think or often even what you do if you are not hellbent on sucking the setup dry (See: Boeing today vs Boeing 30 years ago). A thing about life that's really not up for belief because it was researched from various angles.

Also, I never spoke of any reward. Just attribution. Alteration of reward may or may not follow.



Very well, I encourage you to prove my initial assertions wrong.

How does the reader appease you - what is your proposed solution?


Solution to what? You are arguing against a position that you yourself invented. Just observing that succes is a combination of skill and luck (and thus arguable not 100% fair) doesn’t mean it has to be solved.

Also your other comments makes me think of the term “sealioning”. Hope this is unintentional.


Make your own damned arguments next time, without harnessing them to a bald and frankly embarrassing drive-by ad hominem. That would at least appease this reader to the extent of imagining it possible you have something here to say which could stand on its own.




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