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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-my-luck dept.

MIT Tech Review reports on a new study which used computer model to analyze wealth distribution in society. It concludes that the majority of riches do not result from talent, intelligence or hard work - but luck. Those who succeed most in modern society are born well and experience several 'lucky events' which they exploit, but are of mediocre talent. The study's abstract states that the model has potential for encouraging investment in the genuinely gifted, and summarizes:

"...if it is true that some degree of talent is necessary to be successful in life, almost never the most talented people reach the highest peaks of success, being overtaken by mediocre but sensibly luckier individuals. As to our knowledge, this counterintuitive result - although implicitly suggested between the lines in a vast literature - is quantified here for the first time."


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 04 2018, @09:35AM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday March 04 2018, @09:35AM (#647562) Homepage Journal

    Thank you, it would be a great honor. Unless you're a loser. I don't like losers. What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday March 05 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)

    by captain normal (2205) on Monday March 05 2018, @01:13AM (#647804)

    I guess you totally missed the reference to the last line in "Casablanca". If you are seriously looking to do parody you should study Alec Baldwin's skit last night on SNL, or check out Steven Colbert on "The Tonight Show".

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    • (Score: 1) by realDonaldTrump on Monday March 05 2018, @02:13PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday March 05 2018, @02:13PM (#647961) Homepage Journal

      Casablanca, the critics and all the movie snobs love that one. The elites. But maybe, probably, a lot of them have never seen it. Because it came out before I was born -- and I'm not such a young guy anymore. And they could have done it in color, they tried to save money, they did it in Black & White. Which nobody wants to watch anymore. Ted Turner, very smart guy, but he made a mistake with that one. Because in the '80s he bought the rights to Casablanca, and he spent a lot of money on computer, on cyber, to put color into it. So people will want to see it, right? They didn't want to see it, they wanted to be SNOBS. They decided that color wasn't politically correct. So the color one was a major flop. Not because it's bad. Because of political correctness. Sad!

      Steven Colbert, very talented guy. I was one of his first guests. When he took over The Late Show from Letterman. Very easy interview, and a lot of fun. He asked me to sign a copy of The Art of the Deal -- that copy is worth a lot now. Maybe, probably, he's a fan. He's said a lot of nice things about me. And some not so nice. About me having gay sex with President Putin -- trust me, that never happened, it's not going to happen, obviously I'm not gay. A lot of complaints to my FCC about that. But I've been great for his ratings. Les Moonves, the President of CBS, he loved my campaign. Because I brought so much money to CBS. People don't know this, Les is on the board of ZeniMax Media. And so is my little brother Robert. Fallout, they do that video game. And many more.

      Alec Baldwin's dying, mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL. He's a bitch, he always sends me snippy tweets. And he now says playing me was agony. Believe me, it was agony for those who were forced to watch. That show has really gone down the tubes. It's boring and unfunny, time to retire it! Amazing and very sad that you've seen it and like it. Because anything else would be more interesting and entertaining. The test pattern, anything. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent! He actually LOOKS & SOUNDS like President Clinton, like Bill Clinton.