It's interesting that 10 years ago, people avoided this subject completely - The authors of such papers would have been accused of being jealous and lazy. Now,

It's interesting that 10 years ago, people avoided this subject completely - The authors of such papers would have been accused of being jealous and lazy. Now, the idea that we are not a meritocracy is basically common knowledge, it seems that more or less everyone (even among the rich) accepts that this is the reality. I don't think that society has ever been in such a state of economic self-awareness before. Unfortunately, all this doesn't seem to change people's attitude towards wealth; if anything, the rich are getting even richer and the poor are literally being wiped out in the opiate epidemic. It seems that luck plays a bigger role than ever and yet the consequences of winning or losing are becoming more extreme at the same time.