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> Luck doesn't exist Tell that to people that were born poor or with a big disability or into an abusive family. Compare their chances and fate with those that
by ta1234567890 8y ago
> Luck doesn't exist
Tell that to people that were born poor or with a big disability or into an abusive family. Compare their chances and fate with those that were born into a good family with plenty of resources. What do you call the source of that difference? Most people would call it luck.
- threatofrain 8y agoThe poster may see something worse than luck there; they may see cause. One cannot reroll in life and be reborn as the heir of the Hilton family. Or do people imagine that there’s a global repository of souls which are randomly drawn from when two people have reproductive sex? The contrasting idea to luck is fate. People don’t have as much of a problem with luck as they do with fate.
- strictnein 8y agoYeah, I'm probably splitting hairs somewhat, but that would be fortune and not luck. Also, while that extreme example is somewhat illustrative, I think for most of us it's that we're one of 20+ engineers, illustrators, business-types, etc in a department, and the "luck" we see around us is explained by what I wrote. Luck implies unexplainable randomness. Example: The person who got the promotion was "lucky", because they just happened to have knowledge in a field that was needed. There's no luck there, they spent years learning that information.