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Mark Kelly: “Hard work still pays off. It just pays off for somebody…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Is Nuking Iran an "Illegal Order?" - with Sen. Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 10:36

… produced is a system that, you know, it used to be like when I was younger, when I was in my 20s, that hard work paid off. Here's the thing. Hard work still pays off. It just pays off for somebody else. Here's theory number two as to why those people think that was fake. Theory number two, physics is hard. This is the equation for how to qualify work. (10:36–10:41)

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Asserts that hard work benefits others rather than the individual who works hard.

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