Yeah, this. People don't realize and don't want to realize how much of their success in life is based on pure, sheer luck. I'm not going to say that hard work

Yeah, this. People don't realize and don't want to realize how much of their success in life is based on pure, sheer luck. I'm not going to say that hard work is irrelevant, but it's very much overrated. Because you can work hard yourself to death and not get any penny to your name. Whereas if you luck out, you luck out - no hard work required. I guess that we - as narrative creatures - aim to have a satisfactory story to our lives. We that are successful want this success to be our own achievements, not the random fluctuation of chance. But human brains are very bad with randomness and so we see patterns; the people close to us are good and honest and hard working, no wonder they are rich and successful. They earned it! we think, not taking into consideration confirmation and selection bias. It's just a shame that we are also lead to believe the reverse is true. That poor person over there? He must be slacking off and is not putting in enough elbow grease - he deserves to be poor and miserable. Sometimes we're very bad at thinking.