Here's another truth about tech life: anyone who claims the Valley is meritocractic is someone who has profited vastly from it via nonmeritocratic means like happenstance, membership in a privileged cohort, or some concealed act of absolute skulduggery.
An error at the hour of signing a big contract, or negotiating an acquisition, could easily cost you millions, or be the deciding factor between summers in Ibiza with your model girlfriend or taking a consolation-prize job as product manager at Oracle instead (look, you get pretax commuter cost ben…
What was one more child in the mix? I'd have the heir and the spare. A little redundancy, whether in technology or heredity, never hurt.
At Harvard it's "Baker Scholar", at Stanford it's "Arjay Miller Scholar"; this is the added frosting on the MBA cake if you graduate within the top 10 percent gradeswise. It's the people who took their MBA classes seriously and thought that the content actually meant something rather than assuming …
Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.
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Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player--investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer--is complicit.
But hey, look at these shiny iPhones. Right?
