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I find it amusing how many comments here are some form of "I could be if I wanted to" with apparently nobody questioning how much of acquiring wealth is luck. T
by dataangel 5y ago
I find it amusing how many comments here are some form of "I could be if I wanted to" with apparently nobody questioning how much of acquiring wealth is luck. Tells you a lot about HN's audience.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoThey've all come here to be around the luck.
- throwawaymanbot 5y ago
- ratg13 5y agoI find it sad how none of the comments reference the article and people are just using this thread as a random soabox.
- krapp 5y agoWelcome to Hacker News.
- errantmind 5y agoIs there any way to quantify 'luck'? Your comment is also commonly posted but it isn't always 'luck' and without any way to determine how much luck is involved at an aggregate level, it seems meaningless to mention it.
- dataangel 5y agoTurn your argument around: without knowing the impact of luck there's no reason to assume it's determined by skill. Fooled by Randomness is a decent treatment of this topic.
- horns4lyfe 5y agoAlso no one is willing to admit that they might not be that smart. People here think because they’re an engineer they’re smarter than their peers; by my estimation, my smartest friend works less than 40 hrs a week selling mortgages, has never heard of leetcode, doesn’t have anything past a bachelors degree, and will make nearly a million dollars this year