The Birth Lottery is Everything.

[iownvetements]

Your entire life dumbs down to how lucky you were during birth. Genetics determine the majority of your physical appearance, so natural HTNs are lucky to have their beauty.

Genetics also determine some of your intelligence, athleticism, and height.

Furthermore, in the U.S., about 31% of billionaires have inherited their wealth, whereas, in regions like India or Mexico, over 60% of billionaires have inherited their fortune. (https://www.ilwulocal142.org/us-billionaires-made-their-wealth-finances)

Your childhood is also affected by things like whether you were born in a wealthy vs. poor country, born during peace vs. war, etc.

Luck determines your starting hand at life, and sadly, most of us here never won the jackpot. There’s stuff you can do now to improve your life and steer it in a new direction, but honestly, it would have been a whole lot easier just getting lucky.

 

[futureschizo]

Yea bro this is water

 

[Iamspace]

Your entire life dumbs down to how lucky you were during birth. Genetics determine the majority of your physical appearance, so natural HTNs are lucky to have their beauty.

Genetics also determine some of your intelligence, athleticism, and height.

Furthermore, in the U.S., about 31% of billionaires have inherited their wealth, whereas, in regions like India or Mexico, over 60% of billionaires have inherited their fortune. (https://www.ilwulocal142.org/us-billionaires-made-their-wealth-finances)

Your childhood is also affected by things like whether you were born in a wealthy vs. poor country, born during peace vs. war, etc.

Luck determines your starting hand at life, and sadly, most of us here never won the jackpot. There’s stuff you can do now to improve your life and steer it in a new direction, but honestly, it would have been a whole lot easier just getting lucky.

yea no shit pal

 

[Acquiescence]

But tik tok greys told me I just need to work hard and persevere bro!

 

[Firstname.Lastname]

Furthermore, in the U.S., about 31% of billionaires have inherited their wealth, whereas, in regions like India or Mexico, over 60% of billionaires have inherited their fortune. (https://www.ilwulocal142.org/us-billionaires-made-their-wealth-finances)

Your childhood is also affected by things like whether you were born in a wealthy vs. poor country, born during peace vs. war, etc.

Who you are born, and thus the circumstances your born into, to has nothing to do with luck.

 

[Daddy's Home]

 

[iownvetements]

Who you are born, and thus the circumstances your born into, to has nothing to do with luck.

Why is that?

 

[iownvetements]

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He shouldn't have reproduced tbh

 

[soapbubble]

most water shit thread ever

 

[Firstname.Lastname]

Why is that?

If it were luck then it suggest you could have been born to someone else. You clearly cannot have been.

 

[iownvetements]

You clearly cannot have been.

If "you couldn't have been otherwise" eliminates luck, then the concept of luck disappears entirely, which is absurd.

 

[Firstname.Lastname]

If "you couldn't have been otherwise" eliminates luck, then the concept of luck disappears entirely, which is absurd.

Luck is when something has many possible outcomes, and you simply hit upon an improbable one that is also beneficial. Luck is applicable to which genes you inherit, its not applicable to the gene set that's possible for you to inherit. Since the later is affixed by your parents genetics.

So no who your parents are isn't luck, its an affixed outcome.

 

[iownvetements]

Luck is when something has many possible outcomes, and you simply hit upon an improbable one that is also beneficial.

This is probabilistic luck, however there are other forms of luck that exist.

Since the later is affixed by your parents genetics.

Sure, but why do you have those parents? You didn't choose them. You didn't control their genetics, You didn't determine which two people met and reproduced. Even if the gene pool is fixed once parents are fixed, the selection of those parents itself is contingent.

 

[Firstname.Lastname]

Sure, but why do you have those parents?

Because of their actions, and the laws governing genetics.

Again this is like arguing 1+1=2 is lucky somehow that its not 3.

2 didn't do anything to make 1+1 be the output of that function. It didn't choose them.

Luck has nothing to do with it. Its a determined output from a predefined function.

 

[Firstname.Lastname]

This is probabilistic luck, however there are other forms of luck that exist.

 

[iownvetements]

Because of their actions, and the laws governing genetics.

Again this is like arguing 1+1=2 is lucky somehow that its not 3.

2 didn't do anything to make 1+1 be the output of that function. It didn't choose them.

Luck has nothing to do with it. Its a determined output from a predefined function.

Something can be fully determined and still be lucky from the perspective of the person benefiting from it

A lottery winner remains lucky, because the outcome was beyond their control, regardless of how strictly it followed physical laws.

2 didn't do anything to make 1+1 be the output of that function. It didn't choose them.

Exactly, that's why it would be luck if 2 were a beneficiary

If you receive an outcome you did not cause or control, and it advantages you, that’s what we call luck.

This 1+1=2 analogy is also a misleading fallacy

 

[Firstname.Lastname]

Something can be fully determined and still be lucky from the perspective of the person benefiting from it

A lottery winner remains lucky, because the outcome was beyond their control, regardless of how strictly it followed physical laws.

BECUSE THE OUTPUT OF A LOTTO IS RANDOM EVENT OF CHANCE, WITHOUT ANY PREDEFINED OUTCOME WITH THE PLAYERBASE. WHO YOUR PARENTS ARE IS NOT, AN EVENT OF CHANCE.

No we do not call a predefined outcome lucky simply because you lack control, that is not what luck means.

It's getting fairly obvious you are either trolling or are completely unable to comprehended dozens of basic concepts.

 

[iownvetements]

BECUSE THE OUTPUT OF A LOTTO IS RANDOM EVENT OF CHANCE, WITHOUT ANY PREDEFINED OUTCOME WITH THE PLAYERBASE. WHO YOUR PARENTS ARE IS NOT, AN EVENT OF CHANCE.

No we do not call a predefined outcome lucky simply because you lack control, that is not what luck means.

It's getting fairly obvious you are either trolling or are completely unable to comprehended dozens of basic concepts.

You're assuming luck requires randomness and assuming that lack of control is insufficient for luck, both of which are false

I didn’t choose my parents, my genes, or my birthplace. Whether those were determined by prior causes is irrelevant. If an outcome benefits me and I didn’t control it, that’s luck in any ordinary sense.

This is starting to become mental gymnastics, and I'm already exhausted with schoolwork to complete, so I'll conclude here.

 

[peathejew]

I thought this was obvious

 

[LTNUser]

I thought this was obvious

This is the hundredth time I'm seeing someone make thread about the same topic

 

[peathejew]

This is the hundredth time I'm seeing someone make thread about the same topic

I agree, and it’s also obvious too, doesn’t need to be stated