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0 pointscudgy2y ago0 comments

If anyone is held to a perfect standard, shouldn’t it be someone making $220 million in a year?

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>If anyone is held to a perfect standard

The premise does not make sense to me. See:

>No one is perfect.

cudgyOP2y ago

Ok. Can we agree that some people are expected to be more perfect than others? Say the janitor versus the brain surgeon? Or the CEO versus the staff software engineer?

lotsofpulp2y ago

Sure, different people can be expected to have different capabilities. But I don not see how that relates to the context of this comment chain.

Specifically being able to predict the future a few years during and after an unprecedented pandemic.

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lotsofpulp2y ago

>If anyone is held to a perfect standard

The premise does not make sense to me. See:

>No one is perfect.

cudgyOP2y ago

Ok. Can we agree that some people are expected to be more perfect than others? Say the janitor versus the brain surgeon? Or the CEO versus the staff software engineer?

lotsofpulp2y ago

Sure, different people can be expected to have different capabilities. But I don not see how that relates to the context of this comment chain.

Specifically being able to predict the future a few years during and after an unprecedented pandemic.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse