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To answer the question posed in the title (and yes, I read the fluffy article) - luck decides who gets rich.
by bravoetch 6y ago
To answer the question posed in the title (and yes, I read the fluffy article) - luck decides who gets rich.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoEven if that's true, it still implies that everyone else mostly aren't idiots, because otherwise it wouldn't take luck to get rich, all it would take is outsmarting all these idiots everywhere.
- abiogenesis 6y agoThe point is you cannot outsmart lucky idiots.
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- fogetti 6y agoNope. Luck does not imply causality. Everyone can be an idiot (including you) and you can still be lucky. Or there can be a mixture of idiots and geniuses and you can still be lucky.
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago"Luck does not exist" is not required, because that's just a separate path to getting rich. You can win the lottery and it's pure luck. But if you're really smarter than everyone else then you should still be able to figure out how to get their money even if you only have the ordinary amount of luck.
- blobbers 6y agoLuck favours the prepared.
- darcys22 6y agoParticularly when your family prepared for you
- dnautics 6y agoEven when it didn't.
- fogetti 6y agoLuck by definition is an independent variable. Edit: I don't know who downvoted me, but this is the definition of luck according to Google: "success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions"
- filoleg 6y agoLuck just determines specific momentary opportunities that that have the potential to set you in the right direction. The thing is, you need to be prepared to take advantage of those opportunities, as well as work on increasing the occurrence rate of those opportunities. It’s like playing blackjack. Ultimately, it all comes down to luck, but you are significantly increasing your chances of winning by employing certain (legitimate) strategies rather than playing your hand randomly and hoping for luck to hit you.
- fogetti 6y agoWhat you describe is not luck, but different rates of probability. Luck is I would say when you have 50% of chance of winning. Otherwise by definition it is not luck, but a high chance of winning.
- mirekrusin 6y agoYes and no. Like lottery ticket - you can get one, or you can decide not to buy any in your life, or commit to buying 1 ticket a day for life.
- aeternum 6y agoLuck plays a role but smart and successful people often create many opportunities to get lucky.
- taneq 6y ago"Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!" ― Llonio (Lloyd Alexander)
- Drakar1903 6y agoLuck is when ability and preparedness meet an opportunity.
- jojobas 6y agoWe are bioelectrical puppets driven by quantum effects, so everything we do is decided by luck.
- thdrdt 6y agoTrue, but you can't get lucky when you keep sitting on your couch.
- malka 6y agoYes you can. You just had to pop out of the right vagina.
- gonzo41 6y agoAre you born in the west, male and white? If you are you're lucky. And those traits will allow you, even against your best efforts to fall upwards over your lifetime. Also, you have a couch, and get to sit on it, that's a lucky thing to do. To be lazy is an indulgence that not all unlucky people have.
- dlivingston 6y agoI think that’s needlessly reductionist. Read the biographies of people like Mark Cuban and Richard Branson: both of these men were born entrepreneurs and salesmen, with Cuban starting his first business at age 12 and Branson at age 16. A good parallel to this is the music industry, actually: yes, there is a significant amount of luck in “making it.” But you cannot deny that talent is one of the strongest predictors: at the very least, talent is the bar to entry.
- michaelscott 6y agoI think people like Cuban and Branson are good examples of those who "make their own luck", where they're running the business version of Monte Carlo simulation until something sticks. They definitely have the right mindset and skillset to do things like run a business successfully, but obviously the probability of success increases with the number of attempts.
- hesk 6y agoLooking at examples of successful people is classic survivorship bias. Smart people who lucked out on their businesses do not get to write biographies. EDIT: spelling
- blackoil 6y agoBeing smart may not be sufficient, but seems necessary atleast to make your own money.
- projektfu 6y agoYeah, but the music industry also has an issue that a surprising number of non-musical things are considered talent. "Production value" as was said in Tape Heads.
- lazyjones 6y agoReally? So is being smart completely useless, or does it help everywhere except with getting rich?
- koonsolo 6y agoYeah, I'm just lying here in my bed waiting to get rich... maybe I will be lucky one day...
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