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"Hard working people tend to know other hard working people. Hard working people get more done."

That reads so odd to me. It's like someone did a search-and-replace for "Well off" with "Hard working".

I am not aware of hard working people knowing each other. Like did they attend the same "hard working" schools or something?

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Imagine you are a team lead and you have 10 people that work for you, two of them do 80% of the work. When there is an event, you need to send one of those two so that you do not embarrass yourself and so that you can look good. Just imagine.

Now imagine, that there are 10 teams like yours in the world. what do you think the likelihood that those top two performers know the other top two performers and at least one of those other teams?

That sounds like they meet after they're successful? I mean, they got on the teams to begin with—implying they got through college, got hired by a big company, etc.

Yes, that’s exactly the implication. I.e. the connection is downstream of success/hard work/intellect, not upstream of it.

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