Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity isn’t pic.twitter.com/bWvFVLlyHN— Akin Sawyerr (@AkinSawyerr) February 16, 2019
And I'm thinking, talent is evenly distributed?
No. Talent and opportunity are unevenly distributed. She is talented at bouncing a soccer ball and I am not.
Then down thread other commenters insist on the macro level talent certainly is distributed evenly. There will be such talent across nations.
Imagine. It's similar to the discussion about slavery and what the teacher put up on her door about stolen talent.
Some people can do similar things more practical than this to actually winning soccer games and earn the attention of clubs in cities and win contracts for a level of fortune and fame.
While others are awesome at balancing and catch the attention of their town and the president of the United States.
While still others do similar things and audition for Cirque du Soleil.
And others become buskers on city streets in the summer.
Each with varying degrees of excellence.
See, "evenly distributed" is debatable.
But if you must have the woman appear relatively downtrodden we can ask why that is so.
We can ask, look, what we know about evolution, your people appeared first on this earth. So explain what happened through history that put other cultures so ahead technologically, socially, and economically. And what are you going for yourselves to do to close the apparent gap?
It's an honest question since you bring up uneven opportunity.
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I think his meaning was everybody's good at something.
Even Zippy was good at wrecking stuff.
The practical application is carrying water jugs on her head.
If the person was conflating the talent to juggle a soccer ball to ability to play competitive soccer; I'm sure there are tons of videos of people spinning basketballs on their fingers and other things that couldn't play in the NBA. But what she does is impressive and can make a buck or two, just like all those videos of people spinning basketballs.
Nothing's evenly distributed. Everything's hierarchical.
And the war against that reality is not only perverse, it has caused most of the misery the world is now mired in.
She's just been accepted into Harvard Law.
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