Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Why meritocracy is a LIE... (it's way worse than people realize)" video.

That’s because one has been around as long as jobs have existed, and the other is a very new phenomenon that compounds the problem
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@Aiphiae you might be correct, but you might be wildly incorrect. You have chosen to firmly state the least possible charitable interpretation of what was said. The statement could be be read a number of different ways. if this person is saying that you shouldn’t vote in the same people who’ve been perpetuating this nonsense, then that’s fantastic.
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I like George Carlin, but that line was always so stupid because it was coming from a man who made tremendous amounts of money by bucking the system and doing it his way
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@jamesandrew1750 exactly. I like George Carlin, but he has a couple of really big errors in his writing. “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it“ is brilliant, but saying you have to be asleep to believe the American dream is so patently absurd, especially coming from him. That system allowed him to live a life that was better than most people in history could ever even dream of. He got to make tremendous amounts of money by being a beloved celebrity and working when he wanted where he wanted. and he got there strictly based onmerit. I don’t care who your family is, if you’re not funny, people won’t buy tickets.
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@jamesandrew1750 exactly. I like George Carlin, but he has a couple of really big errors in his writing. “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it“ is brilliant, but saying you have to be asleep to believe the American dream is so patently absurd, especially coming from him. That system allowed him to live a life that was better than most people in history could ever even dream of. He got to make tremendous amounts of money by being a beloved celebrity and working when he wanted where he wanted. and he got there strictly based on merit. I don’t care who your family is, if you’re not funny, people won’t buy tickets.
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@kimmieutsunomiya1457 DEI helps poor people? Look up the statistics on who makes the most money. Whitey is 3rd, and with the young generation the females out earn the males by a decent amount because they have higher rates of university degrees. DEI is literally just an excuse for racists and sexists to do things they claim to hate, while wearing a halo. I've never met a woke person who wasn't openly a bigot, and that's because DEI is is literally about NOT judging people by the content of their character and instead judging them by immutable characteristics. By literal textbook definition, it's racist and sexist and bigoted. You guys like being that way, you just want to justify it.
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“ the Carpenter‘s daughter could become a professors”?!? This is exactly why I hate academia so much. These people are so full of themselves and have such an elitist attitude. It’s beyond belief. There are carpenters that make more than university professors and he makes it sound like carpenters are just poor bums. Academics just can’t fathom the fact that other people bring value and get paid like it. they often talk like they champion the common man, but their actions and words very much betray this notion.
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