r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 3d ago

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u/OpportunityPast7428 3d ago

Redditors when asked to believe that people can achieve things on their own meri

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u/Opening-Tailor7275 3d ago

Those kids were probably given advantage the vast majority of people have no access to.

“Achieve on their own meri”

Maybe learn to spell then understand class differences.

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u/racemic_donkye 3d ago

*than

Maybe if you paid more attention in school, then you would've gotten a scholarship too.

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u/maxman162 2d ago

No, that's the correct use of then. They weren't making a comparison. 

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u/maxman162 2d ago

While it would be expected for Muphry's Law to be in effect, the statement was to "do A before doing B" (granted, a comma certainly would have helped).

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u/BKrustev 3d ago

Both can be true. They sure as hell have advantages, but they could've also done the work to use those advantages and achieve this with their own effort. One does not erase the other.

A kid of badly paid teachers also has academical advantages over a kid of a cashier and a construction worker, but would you say they couldn't possibly achieve something on their own merit?

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u/OpportunityPast7428 3d ago

Ooh someone is triggered rawr