You're making a semantic argument. That's often fine, but is irrelevant in this case. To the extent talent is innate, it's a matter of luck. To the extent it t

You're making a semantic argument. That's often fine, but is irrelevant in this case. To the extent talent is innate, it's a matter of luck. To the extent it takes thousands of hours of practice, well... how is it that one has the opportunity and ability to practice some thing for thousands of hours? You generally need a some mixture of support and dedication. Your level of support is clearly a matter of luck... and the qualities of dedication and working hard must be either be skills that you have to acquire somehow or innate talents. Which again, both seem to be matters of luck. To me, it seems like a fools game to try to find reasons to justify why you're more deserving of this or that than someone else. The deeper you dig, the less reasons you can find to actually feel superior (or inferior, for that matter).