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"Hard Work Alone Explains Economic Success"

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Crediting economic success to hard work alone omits the social capital, connections, and starting resources that also shape advancement.

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Two equally qualified applicants to a competitive nonprofit board seat can land different outcomes if one has a legacy connection the committee weighs.

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The dispute is not whether hard work matters, but whether it alone suffices; Soc 1554 supplies the missing factor.