>>But it's not as simple as that. Depending where you start, hard work may matter, but it's rarely sufficient. (I say "may matter," because being born, say, Paris Hilton, is pretty lucky in the first place.)
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>She did a stint in prison.... :)

Which shows that she totally wasted the luck/advantages she was born with. IAC, you probably saw that I agreed that she was a bad example, and suggested that Sam Walton's kids were an example of starting with a lot of luck.

Tamar