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I'm quite sure people do realize this hence the saying "It's not what you know but who you know"

In practice it's more like "It's not who you know, it's who knows you."

I think the "know" is meant to be the symmetrical kind.

Sure -- but the emphasis belongs w/ the other (who is in a position to help you).

If that’s what true no one would know anything and we’d still be wondering how to cook our food when forest fires didn’t naturally occur.