I love the video game metaphor. Just because you're playing at the "easy" level in a video game doesn't mean it is easy to finish the game. You have to put in the time and effort, and the last boss can still be difficult.

This might be the origin of the metaphor: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-t...

I think the qualification is necessary. Even Warren Buffet admits that he got rich in a very specific way using skills that would be all but useless in any other context but him winning the "ovarian lottery". https://www.sloww.co/ovarian-lottery/

From the link: Buffett says, "I didn’t get money from my parents, and I really didn’t want it."

Which kind of elides the fact that his father was a sitting US Congressman. Investors were willing to give large sums of money to a man in his early twenties so he could flip manufacturing firms. Ovarian lottery doesn't quite cover it.

Not really. Good advice is often specific and actionable. People have to adapt it to their circumstances. OP included a warning to make it clear that this isn't a guarantee and to give specific circumstances in which his advice is sound.

What's the alternative? How else could you write an article that conveys the steps you took to achieve a goal, if not to write the steps you took?

It's an obligatory warning, otherwise people (even here on HN) will decry your methods as mainly due to privilege, and irreproducible for the average perso.

Most people reading this paragraph start with the same luck coefficient.

(Not all, so no need to add your personal story here. But most.)

I feel like there was more to his luck than simply being born in Italy.