[kghose]

Because, as we all know, politics plays no part in faculty hiring, and who you know, who your advisor was, who your drinking buddies were, have no bearing on those decisions, and it is all dependent solely on the objective merits of your work and expertise.

[Dewie]

Good work is the key to good fortune

Winners take that praise

Losers seldom take that blame

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This can be used to point at both victim-of-circumstance "losers" and it-was-all-me "winners", depending on your viewpoint.

[eli_gottlieb]

The outcomes of human-social-status processes have never been epistemological evidence of anything except how humans allocate social status.