>>>Absolutely. But some of us have a lot more chances to walk through a door. I've written about this as it applies to my own life: https://medium.com/@TamarEGranor/from-patterns-and-puzzles-to-programming-60ac6ae46c73#.w04zrojlz. But that essay leaves out lots of other "doors" that came my way. For example, my first non-babysitting summer job came through a friend of my parents. Edited out of that essay was the pull-out program in 4th grade where the HS Math teacher father of a friend taught us some set theory. Etc., etc., etc. Because I was born who I was, when I was, where I was, my life has included a lot more of those doors than other people's lives have.
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>>>So, are you saying that your success cannot be attributed to your own hard work? Do you believe that other people's actions and luck were a more important contributing factor to your success than your own actions?
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>>You are being very Socratic about it - but don't pretend you don't know the underlying thought behind the "Luck Matters" theory:
>> "You didn't build that"
>> "It is just pure random luck some have more wealth than others"
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>>It is a viewpoint that justifies "spreading the wealth around" - as our dear leader has said.
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>Ah, the language - "cannot be attributed to", "just pure random luck". I guess you folks don't have color, or even grayscale TVs, black and white being quite enough for you?

Looks like only black (or white) is enough options for some.