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allow us to introduce you to the concept of a "meritocracy" - the closest thing to a form of self-government we have. In the united meritocratic nation-states of the internet, those who can do, rule. Those who wish to rule, learn. Everyone else watches from the stands.
You may posses everything in the off-line world. We don't care. You come to the internet penniless, lacking the only thing of real value here: Knowledge.
"who cares? The internet isn't real anyway!" this attitude is universally unacceptable. The internet is real. Real people live behind those handles and screen names. Real machines allow it to exist. It's real enough to change government policy, real enough to feed the world's hungry, and even, for some of us, real enough to earn us a paycheck. Using your own definition, how "real" is your job? Your stock portfolio? Your political party? What is the meaning of "real", anyway?
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