. I think if you did an audit of people's lives, you would find opportunities lost (even for the more successful folks on this site) and it had little to do with luck.
When everybody always knows beforehand how things will turn out based on their choices, and everybody has the same menu to choose from, then your position would hold.
Otherwise, all the choice making and opportunity taking is a roll of the dice. Everything is mostly luck EVEN when you work hard and strive and take opportunities that are presented. (Of course you cannot take the oportunities that are not presented to you.) If you do not control the outcome from thr begining you are just -there-. There are more hard working striving smart ambitious people out there who will never do more than make a living. Maybe a great living but just a living. There will be no mega wealth for them and that is what we are discussing here. Not grandma's old saws about "trying hard" Unless you champion clairvoyance along with work.
I believe...
Uh huh. I thought so. Beliving makes it so. Counteracts all the things that are beyond one's own control