> The only answer here is money. Money. That's it.
Exactly. I'm rich. I didn't even work that hard; it was mostly inherited. I "bought" my way through Stanford/Harvard and learned far more than my peers, solely because I had money to pursue side projects and could hire experienced PhD tutors.
I feel bad for those without enough money. With that said, I will do everything in my power to keep this status quo, whether that means donating to lobbyists or tricking others into suboptimal life decisions. Any poor person would do the same (in fact they already do with their other non-monetary resources such as time).
This is absolutely not fair but that is the reality. I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot by making the playing field more fair.
Will this have a negative impact on my kids and future generations? Yes.
Does this mean I'm going to drive an electric vehicle, bring a reusable plastic bag to grocery shopping, or compost my food? Absolutely not.
Not caring about climate change is just too damn convenient. It's cheaper and faster to not care.
I, and hundreds of millions of others in the world, simply don't care about climate change. If you want to fix it, give us an incentive to care. Make it even easier than it is now to help. But as it stands, I'll let other countries pay for it, such as Norway. Unless you address this, no amount regulation or education will change this.
Source: am an engineering manager at Google in Mountain View.
This article will be downvoted because it goes against many peoples mental model that, if you work hard, you can be successful.
Well, statistically, Stanford/Harvard/IIT graduates are more likely to be successful. If you go to Berkely or Georgia Tech, good for you, but the Stanford et al. grads are probably better.
> If you drove a Honda like a Ferrari you'd likely break a whole lot of it's "reliable" parts too.
You really need to stop drinking the Tesla kool-aid. Of course people drive Honda's like Ferraris. And guess what, the Honda's don't break as easily as the Teslas.
Exactly. I'm rich. I didn't even work that hard; it was mostly inherited. I "bought" my way through Stanford/Harvard and learned far more than my peers, solely because I had money to pursue side projects and could hire experienced PhD tutors.
I feel bad for those without enough money. With that said, I will do everything in my power to keep this status quo, whether that means donating to lobbyists or tricking others into suboptimal life decisions. Any poor person would do the same (in fact they already do with their other non-monetary resources such as time).
This is absolutely not fair but that is the reality. I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot by making the playing field more fair.