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Discussion on: The Privilege Of Learning

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Yechiel Kalmenson

We all have this bias where we feel like our success is deserved mainly due to our own hard work. We don't necessarily realize how much of it is due to pure luck (I seem to recall a certain politician bragging that his success was due to his own hard work, plus a 'moderate' loan of a few million from his dad).

Of course hard work is necessary; without it you'd be nowhere. But many people work harder than you or I ever will, and are still stuck simply because they were not as lucky in the lottery of life.

This realization is necessary if we will be creating a word built on empathy for those less fortunate than us.