I acknowledged that sometimes you can attribute success to luck. Studies have shown, however, that luck makes a difference between success and UBER success - no

I acknowledged that sometimes you can attribute success to luck. Studies have shown, however, that luck makes a difference between success and UBER success - not between success and failure. And while yes, like Warren Buffet we can acknowledge that we are lucky to begin with to be born in the US, he was making that argument in terms of helping people in the third world- not in terms of excusing failure within the US. I'm glad you brought up the example that you did - because quite frankly - Larry and Sergey situation was not unique. I had many friends whose parents were wealty, and even more whose parents were professors. I can assure you that does not equate to automatic success. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and presume to know what these two figures were thinking, but it takes a driven person to put themselves in position to take advantage of opportunity when it arises. That is, it takes a driven individual to make it to Stanford grad school to begin with. This is the same argument that is used to explain why people from shitty situations/backgrounds aren't absolved when they commit a heinous crime - because what then does it say of the people from the same background who avoid those mistakes? And yes, I am such a person from the hood. And no, I'm not a staunch republican that believes no one is at a disadvantage - I realize that some people really are playing catch up from the minute they exit the womb.