Hey now. That “emerald mine in apartheid South Africa” but is not true at all. He benefited from being the son of a rich white guy in apartheid South Africa. The emerald mine was in Zambia. He materially benefited from colonial rule in TWO countries.
touché
I’m too tired to look it up, but I remember someone saying that resilience or grit was one of the best indicators of success. Someone replied that actually the best indicator of success is if you came from wealth.
Also grit is an over hyped and under delivered construct of human cognition that really is only spoken of seriously nowadays by people trying to sell you something
grit makes me think of Bukowski novels like Post Office. Just a bunch of dudes laboring to look like they’re working hard to please the boss, rather than to do the labor.
Personally grit makes me think of literal sand. Or dirt in general. It’s something you wash off the first chance you get. Not exactly something to be celebrated.
I’m sure grit + wealth is far better than either alone. It’s really probably grit + wealth + connections + luck.
Grift + wealth works even better.
Lol sure, resilience and grit are great markers of success!..Provided you can afford enough resilience and grit until you succeed! Lol
The whole concept of the self‑made man or woman is a myth
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
what do you mean by that?
You can hear it directly from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As Ann Richards so succinctly put it: born on 3rd base, thought he hit a triple.
deleted by creator
The only self-made man I acknowledge is Philip J. Fry.
Bet he didn’t animate himself smh he owed his success to the story board artists
um ackshually Musk’s dad was only part-owner of that mine, so we give this two pinocchios
Self Attribution Fallacy
https://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/
Not a meme…
when you definitely know what the word meme means
we got enough political BS all over the platform. But sure, I guess people who don’t want to see repeated “capitalism bad” in every community in every post should just leave lemmy.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
wow, look at this welcoming community. 4/1 to this guy.
I understand, you democratically represent lemmy. Be happy in your echo chamber.
you’re not the main character kiddo, get used to it
says you, lmao
I’m not the one running around crying that everybody isn’t catering to my whims here kiddo
Your account is as old as mine. By now I’d think you’d know better.
Oh right, we had this conversation just last week: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/11375618
So I shouldn’t expect you to know anything.
Appropriate username is appropriate.
You know where the block button is.
