>>22870483>No one ever wants to hear the stories of the countless fallen where a handful survived.True but it'd give people a more realistic perspective of what to expect. The main factor here is luck, not hard work. Although many don't want to admit that.
Being in the right place at the right time with the right connections and right opportunities, working just as hard as anyone else can get someone a lot farther depending on how lucky they are. Most of the time it's just birth lottery, since most rich people are born rich. A lot of the "rags to riches" stories are from upper-middle-class to multi-millionaire/billionaire. But you don't hear about a Congolese child miner working in shitty unsafe labor conditions for long hours and low pay becoming a billionaire, or a subsistence farmer in Bhutan, or a factory worker in Bangladesh making your clothes, or a wagie flipping burgers.
Nobody wants to admit that meritocracy never really existed. The world is more of an inheritocracy.
