"""The evidence that working hard helps you get ahead is legion. The evidence that having connections helps you get ahead is legion. Who is right?"""
Actually, the evidence that "working hard helps you get ahead" is not that much. Mostly correlation based on some people that got ahead in other ways (parents, environment, education, connections, chances, etc) but also work hard.
The counter-evidence though is enormous. Hundreds of millions of hard working people never get anywhere.
We just keep in our mind that CEO X that works 16 hours a day doing CEO work is a "hard working man", while we forget the millions pour sods doing real hard labor for the same amount of days...
Actually, the evidence that "working hard helps you get ahead" is not that much. Mostly correlation based on some people that got ahead in other ways (parents, environment, education, connections, chances, etc) but also work hard.
The counter-evidence though is enormous. Hundreds of millions of hard working people never get anywhere.
We just keep in our mind that CEO X that works 16 hours a day doing CEO work is a "hard working man", while we forget the millions pour sods doing real hard labor for the same amount of days...