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That person still had to earn the money for the lottery ticket, and do the work of buying the tickets. If you discount all the necessary steps except the final
by ghufran_syed 5y ago
That person still had to earn the money for the lottery ticket, and do the work of buying the tickets. If you discount all the necessary steps except the final random payoff, it’s easy to “prove” that hard work was not required for a given person’s success
- bluefirebrand 5y ago> That person still had to earn the money for the lottery ticket, and do the work of buying the tickets. Not necessarily, it could be a gift or even something they find on the street. It's also not the point. All through this thread you are ignoring that people are talking about relative hard work effort versus success output. Buying a lottery ticket is such little effort I'd barely even call it "work". So the the work effort is tiny. The success outcome if you win is absolutely enormous. The deciding factor is luck. This is why I say hard work and success are barely related. It's possible, perhaps even likely, to work hard and see little success, while others work less hard, get lucky, and see huge success. At best, hard work gives you more opportunities to get lucky. People who get lucky in this manner (or wish they could) often say that hard work is a way of making your own luck, but that's just a form of survivorship bias imo.