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Crom, Kobold King (vahnj@awoo.space)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 11:38:53 EST Crom, Kobold King

Wanted to boost it but it wasn't cw'd.
Yeah There's a reason when people ask me how I'm successful with my career I just tell them it's luck
https://newsstand.google.com/articles/CAIiEECJFb35UXJFFZGTnNzXXFUqFggEKg0IACoGCAowof8GMMBfMLuOqwM
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1. If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
  
  from Google Play Newsstand
  
  The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world’s poorest 3.8 billion people. This seems to occur in all societies at all scales. It is a well-studied pattern called a power law that crops up in a wide range of social phenomena. But the distribution of wealth is among the most controversial because of the issues it raises about fairness and merit. Why should so few people have so muc...
1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 12:16:17 EST Adam
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  @vahnj That makes a lot of sense. I mean, a lot of the factors that might help someone because wealthy can be correlated to their family and upbringing, and what's more a thing of pure luck than the family you happen to be born into (or raised by, since the two aren't always the same)?
  
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