Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by jimnotgym on Monday August 08, 2022 @11:18AM (#32386491)

> Because the people who improve their position are either intelligent or diligent

Or corrupt, or given a leg up through connections of ones father or school.

> and the people who decline in position are either stupid or lazy.

Or unlucky. Or got ill.

Your ideas sound very Victorian to me. I have noticed that most people who did get rich assume it is something special about themselves that did it, I'm guessing you are one of them.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by philwelch on Monday August 08, 2022 @11:47AM (#32386983)

Jokes on you, I’m not even rich.

I’m talking about broad population-level averages. Maybe you define “luck” as an actual quantifiable trait that measures whether or not you’re blessed by God, but I define luck as a completely random variable that produces noise in the individual case but does not affect population-wide averages.

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