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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since in the end effort accounts for much more success than underlying potential, it seems like we should be aiming to target the hard workers, frankly. [/quote]

In what world is that true?[/quote]

In most of free and capitalistic Planet Earth.

Certainly not in Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and many other sh*tholes.[/quote]

So you'd rather have the surgeon who works really hard but incompetent over the surgeon who is lazy but competent? I can't think of a high-stakes career where it's more important to "work hard" than to actually be capable.[/quote]

Exactly many great engineers are lazy, they will spend a whole year designing something to make their life easier.

A family friend was so annoyed by turning a pepper mill he invented the electric pepper mill... live in nantucket... never worked again, very lazy.[/quote]

1. Nobody becomes an engineer if they are truly lazy.  
2. Yay....let's extrapolate one irrelevant anecdote to validate the idiotic premise. [/quote]

You don't know many engineers do you.[/quote]

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