While the idea of meritocracy might focus on the best skills and knowledge, it misses other components of money-making. Specifically, capital and containers.
Capacity for risk is a form of strength. The way you view risk can depend on how much capital you have behind you, and the risks YOU can take. It is not, and never will be, the same for everybody.
We don’t start from scratch every day. We don’t want to start from scratch every day. On the surface, you might have “alignment of interests” where the surface noise is “shared” by everybody. It is not the same if you have deep support networks.
That is why a lot of entrepreneurs are just rich kids with safety nets. It is not that they are more willing to take risks. It is that the consequences are not the same. History matters.
Yoga might be about stilling waves, but it acknowledges the waves matter. Waves are karma. We all have a history to work through during our life. The sum of past karma. The results of current decisions and actions. Our ability to act, relies on acting mattering. An impact on the next generation. On those around us. Positive and negative.
That is why it is so important to be aware of intended and unintended consequences. If you genuinely want to have the ability to see underlying merit, you have to be aware of context.
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