If you are randomly placed above the median on a pareto or exponential distribution of rewards,and everyone below the 40th percentile selects out, you are going

If you are randomly placed above the median on a pareto or exponential distribution of rewards,and everyone below the 40th percentile selects out, you are going to be phenomenally successful just from survivor bias. Just survive long enough to be lucky. William Blake said it well with, "if only the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."