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Originally Posted by August
This is what I was trying to explain to Skybird.
Before you can do anything you must first believe that you can. A person may not succeed at everything he attempts but failure is a self fulfilling prophesy.
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I do not deny this. I just insist on pointing out that this does not automatically lead to an argument that if only you believe in yourself and try, you automatically get rewarded success. Too many people try and try, and then try more - and still must fail. Because life is not fair, or unfair, nor is it offering everybody the same and equal chances.
That you increase your chances does not mean that there is a treshhold beyond which you atomtaically succeed. You can try and give your best and work like crazy - and still not getting a chance. Or simply being unlucky (yiu get sick or have an accident, or a job that you needed to gets tarted simply is not available.
And I would say that for a relative majority of people trying to imporve from social downfalls it is like this - in america as well as in Germany.
The american dream is not that causally acchievable or even enforcable as it is being suggested. Else there would be almost exclusively millionaires. Instead we have more and more poor, and a shrinking middle class, growing debts, growing unemployment, and a policym without realistic orientation or vision. For every winner there seems to be at least a two digit number of loosers, many of whom tried as hard or even harder than the single winner. The rules and the chances and the starting conditions - they all are not the same for everybody.
I would also say that nowhere and never there is a constant, endless, infinite trend upwards, unlimited growth, and such. In a likmited sphere of something, no matter what, unlimited quntities of something simply is not possible, physically. Its one of the big myths of economic theory - and one of the reasons that have led us to the crisis we are in.
Sol nothing in wrong in trying your share to improve your chances, yes. Just to be noted that just becaseu you placed four bids imnstead of just one does not mean that know you automatically become a winner.
However, this all already is a bit off topic. let's get back to the statements of the original essay, or the additional links I gave.