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This is the outcome I wish for everyone. But God damn the gall. Just judging people based on outcome. Everyone works hard. Not taking into consideration the shear luck of so many thing lining up in your favor. Did you plan on being born in the imperial core, white, able, educated during the greatest economic boom the world has ever seen?
Me I! I did this! All me! Me!
Ugh.
You're not appreciating all the planning that went into being born at an earlier time in order to take advantage of better housing prices.
Nah bro, I see these kids around with avocado on toast and think to myself "I ate muesli and beans and with the $36 I saved from that I bought several houses."
I think movies may have trained some of us to not notice luck. Like, if your born at the right time or to the right parents, you don't notice that for all the "hard-work, bravery, and can-do attitude" protagonists may exhibit, the story still wouldn't work if they weren't just plain old right-place-right-time lucky. Manufactured luck, narrative luck, yes. But still luck. Maybe if your born on third-base, these narrative leaps just seem... realistic?
..is that too cynical?
That is actually really easily over looked. Not too cynical. 'I'm not lucky. I'm the God damn protagonist of this story!'
Also intelligence, strength, skill, health, and attitude are all luck. I find the logical leap from "I have superior attributes as a biological specimen" to "I deserve better privileges" absurd and vaguely fascist
health is a real crapshoot, i'll give you that
But the rest of that list is behaviors and qualities you can cultivate. Intelligence isn't some hard stat like the calculations-per-second in a computer, it's a process of clear methodical thinking that is learned. How fast or slow you may think doesn't limit how smart you can be. And a 'skill' is just a set of behaviors that have been refined with practice, you're not born with them. Attitude is... harder, but it's something you learn to work with as you get a better sense of the inputs and patterns behind it.
The ability to practice and cultivate useful attributes is also luck.