I laughed for a few seconds at this:
Now, it’s funny but obviously it draws up a ton of argument and ideology for people. If you think “anyone can achieve anything” under the capitalistic system, awesome. Then maybe you are the scientist who thinks “We need to analyze how smart and hard-working that monkey is as opposed to the other monkeys.” If you are maybe the more progressive type who thinks the behavior of this monkey is unfair, you probably guffawed at this meme, and then you went back to trashing Elon and company, even though lots of people deify those guys as the only hope society has. As with many (most?) things, it really comes down to your specific worldview on everything, and hard work, work ethic, ability to grow, ability to earn, concepts of fairness, and one’s understanding of the economy are all held very near and dear to people. So maybe you laughed, maybe you didn’t, and I can probably predict a tiny bit about you based on which way that went.
This is Part 1 in my efforts to make this blog into basically a Tumblr with some periodic personal thoughts, and do “deeper writing” over at Medium.
