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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
If 12clicks was born a poor kid in Africa he'd still have grown up to be a moderately wealthy, white has been in America. 
Seriously folks, a shit ton of success is based on pure fucking luck. What family were you born into, what opportunities did you have, who did you meet along the way that loaned you some knowledge, etc. Hard work and street smarts can do a lot but neither guarantee you will make great money. Too many factors, way too many.
If you want to see the idiotic attitudes here in fast forward go keep an eye on hot shot poker players. They win for 6 months or a year and think they are so much smarter than everyone then those darn statistics kick in and you never see them win shit again. With millions of people fighting to be successful you will have some that can't lose on pure luck, some that are really brilliant, some that work hard and it works and most that get where they are from a combination of the three.
Even what Robbie says, true to an extent. But his millionaire ass is nobody to the billionaires that also think they are thousands of times smarter than everyone else. To them he is as poor and stupid as the guy working at McDonalds.
Standard deviation, look it up. |
if you keep putting yourself in positions of opportunity you create your own luck. You can't hit a homerun if you don't show up to the ball park.
Since when does someone have to be a billionaire to be considered successful? Or to be satisfied? Both my parents have been working class types their whole lives. They found decent jobs early and stuck with it. In their eyes they had no need to want or do more than that. Sure they would have taken more money if they were given it but they would have just spent it on my brother and I, or maybe we would have traveled a bit more, but I assure you they don't feel left out of the picture because they weren't millionaires.
I personally want more than that and I'm pushing hard to get there, but I don't need a billion dollars to do it I assure you--and i can give a rats ass what any billionaire thinks of me. Why should anyone?