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When networks disguised as merit determine success

My startup got funded partially because I went to Stanford and know the right investors, but everyone acts like it's pure meritocracy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Access to opportunities through social connections gets reframed as individual achievement, obscuring the role of systemic advantages.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Privilege and its acknowledgment?”

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