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Tracy Hume's avatar

There is a saying that is relevant to your post today: "Talent is equally distributed; opportunity is not."

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

Omg, that’s so good

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Daniel P Quinn's avatar

donald il dunce...

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W. R. Dunn's avatar

In the democracy of ancient Athens, many public offices were filled by lot — how we now often assign jury duty. Surely, such a system will have its failings, but it bespeaks an attitude about civic equality and competence.

Athenian officials were required to submit an accounting of their official service too.

It is arguable at least that a “random assignment” (from a properly vetted “pool” of candidates) would have produced a more competent cabinet than DJT’s nominations.

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

To be fair, scooping up all the people in a dive bar at 1 a.m. would have likely yielded a better cabinet. Certainly a more sober secretary of defense.

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Dawn Levitt's avatar

I'm surprised they didn't accidentally add Jeff Goldblum to their chat group.

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

He may well have been on there. We should probably all check. Anybody might have been invited. Maybe there was a "VP" that they all thought was the vice president but was actually Vladamir Putin.

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Jan Buhrmann's avatar

Your comments remind me of the arguments made in Malcom Gladwell’s book, Outliers…

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

I still need to read that!

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