Of course people want to ascribe agency to success, and necessarily failure. The flip side of luck is fate. Just look at the success of ideas like predestinati

Of course people want to ascribe agency to success, and necessarily failure. The flip side of luck is fate. Just look at the success of ideas like predestination and physical determinism vs. free will in the "marketplace of ideas". Many people really don't like it when you strip them of agency, no matter how flimsy the story told to fill the void.