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I don't think those groups smoke less than the majority population. Perhaps more.

And full-on nepotism is known to be bad. My bet is that blind recruits would perform just as well or better as the family and friends of the recruiting manager would if you'd run the experiment.

Societies with high human capital respect the dead and won't seize upon the first opportunity to rob their graves (rationalizing as "learning" or whatever doesn't cut it). There's plenty of other material that was willfully published to learn from.

Not really. US using implicit financial coercion is no better than Belarus using their air-force. Clearly a larger display of corruption.

The thing is, if you instead did that the management would be more likely to pick up on the distastefulness and pass you over.

"Playing the game" appears to be a rationalization of favoritism. The game is rigged in favor of some people for whom "playing the game" is much easier due to socioeconomic background / ethnicity etc (which are the actual explaining factors for material success).

The anti-competitive behavior, surveillance capitalism, oligarch moves didn't tip you off?

Don't think their infrastructure would cost 30% without their duopoly, e.g. ten non-colluding platforms of equal market share and abiding by interoperability regulations. 5% and no draconian content policy enforcement?

Your power in society is zero sum. Giving it all away to an oligarch in exchange for promises of cheap consumer goods is not an credible bargain.

Late exposure to higher mathematics sounds perfectly plausible. Someone getting into sports at 15 is rarely going to compete with those that started at 10, assuming equal innate talent. The same principle applies to academics.

Would be nice to see some envelope math on the respective importance of IQ and socioeconomic background/nepotism in academia (many PhDs have parents with PhDs etc).

Yes, management consulting at the local offices of the "big 4". Starting comp in MC something like 60k/yr (whereas IB is double).

More high end opportunities than other career paths certainly, but it's much less top heavy. 7 figure income, a few CEOs make it but not common.

Kind of make sense though if local offices adopt some of the same rhetoric and marketing (elite selectivity etc) as the US head offices but with really different market conditions.

I keep hearing this but in my country iẗ́s just not true. Yes you needed to go to the right school (most difficult part but not difficult) an maintain a 3.5 (what they advertised) or even a 3.0 GPA (what they ended up accepting) and join a few student clubs (which nobody really cared about).

Maybe the bar is higher in the US.

Not in countries with functioning labor law.

Stronger socioeconomic background, as with any success.

Not having some of the largest wealth inequality in the world (look it up).

I thought it was about becoming the next Steve Jobs, as in billionaire founder. They tend to grow up with great privilege. Evidently there are great obstacles for the middle class, such as favoritism for the already affluent. As in any country, it has little to with actual capability.

Surely Venezuela could have less social mobility, but it isn't actually that great in the west.

Might have to pay "talent" more than $40k a year before aiming for the moon.

No normal person is investigated like that. Why make things up? Spending tens of millions on case of violating the ... Bail Act of 1976? It's obvious political persecution.

Dodging jurisprudence, that's rich. His Swedish accusers were not even investigated for blatant evidence tampering.

An equivalent claim could also be that some collection of 3-line Python scripts is among the most important accomplishments in computer science and engineering. Being clearly trivial, it probably isn't that great.

So another possibility is that there indeed is such a thing as an emperor without clothes, and he might show up in abstract art.