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I mean it sounds like this guy kind of is? People do actually win the lottery.

• sacnoradhq 4y ago
  That's a dumb argument with survivor's bias. The lottery is external to them and present vanishingly-small winnings to people at random without affirmative agency. People who participate in lotteries are statistically poorer. https://journalistsresource.org/economics/research-review-lotteries-demographics/ https://journalistsresource.org/economics/research-review-lo... https://themillionairenextdoor.com/2011/09/any-economically-successful-man-doesnt-gamble/ https://themillionairenextdoor.com/2011/09/any-economically-...
  • mypornaccount 4y ago
    Are you an AI who can’t understand metaphors?
    • sacnoradhq 4y ago
      That's rude and unhelpful. Read the linked material. The metaphor of bootstraps was an impossible and Quixotic feat like perpetual motion that became coopted as a celebrated mythology of "self-made". There is no such animal, friend.
      • ilyt 4y ago
        It was in the 50's, not now. The world looked a bit fucking different than now.