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kontextmaschine:

Friendly reminder that Horatio Alger, who wrote rags-to-riches American youth fiction in a capital-first Gilded Age like the one we seem to be entering, gets caricatured as pushing an “up by your bootstraps” self-made ethic but his actual work and “luck and pluck” philosophy explicitly emphasizes the necessity of elite patronage and largely advises self-improvement as a way to, with luck, impress bourgeois who are always in search of reliable quality men to run their enterprises

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(“Luck and Pluck” was an h-doujin series I remember from the mid-2000s)

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