Topic: Success in life is 99.9999% luck

Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #104,638

For every millionaire who "was ingenious and worked hard", there ar e million others who are the same thing. It is almost completely luck.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later[^] [v] #1,177,800

No amount of luck would help a food truck business started during a pandemic.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 47 minutes later, 59 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,177,807

My father died a millionaire. He got that money by working a teaching job and when he retired the retirement scheme paid him his working salary.

Luck or hard work? Luck for choosing a job which would have a retirement scheme decades later, and living passed the age of 90.

Hard work for working a job for decades until he retired.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,177,808

@previous (C)
My father was a millionaire but was convicted of fraud by the courts and his estate was gutted.

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,177,811

I guess we're all lucky to have been born on a stable planet. We could have been born in another galaxy in circumstances we can only dream about.

We're lucky to have been born in an age of technology.

Most of us are lucky to be living in a wealthy country.

Some of us are lucky to not want children and made that life choice decades ago.

Some of us are unlucky to have a disability and can't work full-time.

There's good and bad luck everywhere. There's also hard work. Very few successful people don't employ hard work, no matter what their definition of success.

boof joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,177,812

so like, how does luck get into a particular pair of dice when in my hand

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,177,814

@previous (boof)

The dice doesn't know what number you are betting on so it doesn't give you or take away your luck.

boof replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,177,817

what if, like, the dice are haunted

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