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Didn't you win the lottery in the sense that you were lucky enough to be born to hard-working parents? When people talk about the birth lottery, they mean that
by BadCookie 12y ago
Didn't you win the lottery in the sense that you were lucky enough to be born to hard-working parents? When people talk about the birth lottery, they mean that the baby was lucky to be born to those people (or in those circumstances). I don't think anyone means that the parents were lucky necessarily.
- mistermann 12y agoI don't think that's the normal interpretation of the "birth lottery" term. My parents, and especially grandparents, lived through extreme hardship, worse than you'd see in many lives in modern third world countries, but it would generally be considered that I've come from a "privileged" lineage. Also, I personally believe extremely strongly that Western culture's ability to "get along" with their neighbors, and the willingness to personally sacrifice for the sake of the greater good of their local community, has a lot to do with our success as a society, or so called "luck".