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Luck is a term used by incompetent people to explain things that they don't understand.

• beeftime 3y ago
  correct, the term he should have used is "con man"
  • PM_me_your_math 3y ago
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    • beeftime 3y ago
      I didn't get conned personally, no, because I am enough of an engineer to see through his garbage, unworkable ideas. A lot of investors (and municipalities!) haven't been so lucky.
    • elbrian 3y ago
      Where did anyone say they were personally conned?
• xlix 3y ago
  What term do competent people use to explain things they don't understand?
  • the_optimist 3y ago
    “I don’t understand.”
  • layer8 3y ago
    They simply refrain from explaining things they don't understand.
• jmull 3y ago
  Doesn't it seem obviously wrong to suggest that things beyond an individual's control cannot have a significant impact on them?
• rsynnott 3y ago
  From a financial point of view, the most consequential thing ever to happen to me was joining the right company at the right time. More or less total chance. Lots of people could say the same. (Though, some will give themselves an inappropriate amount of credit for it after the fact) Luck (in a random chance context rather than a supernatural context) is real.