The students stood up, one by one, using their prodigious powers of analysis and imagination to come up with one objection after another. The consensus among 75 elderly ivy leaguers was that the system should remain rigged in favour of the elderly. Now do i blame them? No, i don't. This is what happens when we give up on fairness as an essential principle. All that remains is cynicism. We game the things that we've given up. And if i learned anything from that afternoon of pen it's that we want to think about success as a word to describe ourselves, our own progress. But it's not really people who are successful. It's the systems around us