This doesn't seem particularly surprising to me. If you look at the ideologues, you have some people arguing that if you just bootstrap your bootstraps you can

This doesn't seem particularly surprising to me. If you look at the ideologues, you have some people arguing that if you just bootstrap your bootstraps you can bootstrap your way out of poverty. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have people basically claiming that it's all random and you owe absolutely none of your success to your own abilities. The truth, as with all things, is somewhere in the middle. The truth being in the middle, it stands to reason there are certain intrinsic personality traits that would predispose someone to financial/material/commercial success. And if there are traits that would predispose someone to success it stands to reason there would be traits equally predisposing other people to failure.