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Not to go all anti-objectivist, but I've yet to see a consistent equation where (quantity of work) * (quality of work) = wealth

There's a myth of the hustle that gets perpetrated whenever a feel-good story about a hard working, intelligent person's success gets bandied about.

The reality is that I'm where I am at least as much because of who I was born to as to how much hard work and diligence I've put into my professional career.

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Even to win the state lottery you have to make the effort to buy a ticket. Are you saying you've done nothing more significant than having good parents?

Not that one can do nothing significant, but that one is significantly advantaged by his or her parent's wealth.

And studies bear this out. One of the greatest predictors of a person's wealth is whether his or her parents are wealthy. And this, even when corrected for such factors as environment and behaviour.

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