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Curious about what the difference between "systemic issues" and 'the game being "rigged"' is?

One is usually an an inherent problem (e.g. with design, implementation) and the other implies a bad actor manipulating the thing in question.

A system can be rigged even when everyone thinks they're doing the right thing. For example, the system for academic promotion at universities is a very much 'rigged' game, there are the 'real rules' and the 'rules they say are the rules', but nobody is manipulating it, it's just an emergent phenomenon from a series of well-intentioned processes.

probably obtaining VC funding in the valley is the same way.

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