/lit/ - Literature

>>14664777
>>If you view philosophy as a toolkit from which to derive the bare minimum of tools necessary for serving some social function you value a priori, like dismantling technocracies or beheading plutocrats, then reading Chomsky or Foucault in a vacuum might be for you.
No. This is utterly and completely false. Those toolkits do not function properly without the gestalt.
Otherwise OP completely and utterly BTFO'd to high heavens.

>>14236417
You completely miss the point, Musk isn’t arguing that it’s equal opportunity, he’s saying hard work increases your odds, your anger that those odds are heavily stacked against you is irrelevant. Working 100 hour weeks is like buying 10 lottery tickets over 2 lottery tickets, you can stamp your feet all you want about how it isn’t fair some people never win the lottery and some people buy one ticket and win, but the fact that buying more tickets increases your odds is irrefutable. They’re both right because extremely hard work can lead to success, I’ve witnessed it myself first hand with an uncle who had a heart attack at 40 but became a millionaire, and bukowski is right that the system that breeds such a hyper competitive environment is toxic to the soul. Hence they are both correct.

>>14081438