Yes yes, in the end everyone's success can be distilled down to luck or environment (which we were born into so also luck) or inborn qualities (which are also l

Yes yes, in the end everyone's success can be distilled down to luck or environment (which we were born into so also luck) or inborn qualities (which are also luck). Merit does not exist and everything is luck. Or we could notice that merit is still a useful concept, that good decisionmaking is a skill regardless of whether everyone is in a position to use it, and that the previous poster's parents made decisions that were highly beneficial to their child, above and beyond what other parents in comparable situations might have, and that the poster is quite right to be thankful for that. Which funnily enough is the only opinion they voiced, so it's rather a mystery what your needlessly nasty comment is replying to.