And you don't even account for the omnipresence of chaos in and around everything we as humans try to do. Pure, blind luck, both good and ill, are much more a part of our outcomes than good decision making or hard work. The economic resilience to even survive a bad turn of the cards is a privilege that is not often worked for nor earned. It is inherited from a system that pretends luck is equivalent to hard work, when my experience (from battlefields, to Appalachian hollers, to Venture Capital Board Rooms in NYC, Boston, and the Bay, even the choice of what story gets picked up by a top tier magazine as a slush reader) has shown me otherwise. Our economic system is much broader than mere economic choices and the results that spring from those choices blended with whatever mix of entropy and an unknowable table of potential outcomes decide to show up on any given day. Some people have the resources given to them to survive another day. Most do not, and have to carve their own path, as you say.
Well put, yet again, Wrath.
And you don't even account for the omnipresence of chaos in and around everything we as humans try to do. Pure, blind luck, both good and ill, are much more a part of our outcomes than good decision making or hard work. The economic resilience to even survive a bad turn of the cards is a privilege that is not often worked for nor earned. It is inherited from a system that pretends luck is equivalent to hard work, when my experience (from battlefields, to Appalachian hollers, to Venture Capital Board Rooms in NYC, Boston, and the Bay, even the choice of what story gets picked up by a top tier magazine as a slush reader) has shown me otherwise. Our economic system is much broader than mere economic choices and the results that spring from those choices blended with whatever mix of entropy and an unknowable table of potential outcomes decide to show up on any given day. Some people have the resources given to them to survive another day. Most do not, and have to carve their own path, as you say.
As someone who feels like he's teetering on the edge of ADHD burnout, I felt this essay on a spiritual level.