Has the world ever rewarded effort?

No. Not once in the entire history of the human race, from the time we were dwelling in caves to today, not in any tribe, village, hamlet, city, state, kingdom or nation, in no culture or circumstance, has effort ever been rewarded.

It's weird that homo sapiens sapiens has been around for approximately 300,000 years and it's never happened once. Not even once.

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temp8830 6 hours ago | parent [-]

In the village, the horse works the hardest. But the horse will never be elected as the chief.

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krapp 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Horses tend not to run for office. Because they're horses.

	▲	qgin 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Everyone knows someone who worked for years on a project only for it to go nowhere. Pour years into a business that failed. Spend years getting a degree that was useless. Effort might be a part of many people's success stories, but it's not the thing that literally gets rewarded. And conversely, many people get rewarded for things that require relatively little effort. I suppose I should have said that the correlation between effort and reward has never been 1.0 and has often been a lot lower than we like to believe.