fatslob-:O said:
It just has to be that way right now and for no particular reason ... Winners and losers are definitely not decided at birth ... What you do does matter in life regardless of the differing advantages each person has. My family was at the lower end of the household income scale but today I can see a realistic path to being a multi-millionaire whereas I see nothing other than a dead end for my sibling and the path between me and my sibling only diverged half a decade ago ... (In that small amount of time our prospects in life changed drastically!) There can only be a few who will prevail in this world and as such winner's must come at the expense of loser's ... (You see this all the time competition and should see it in the console wars too.) "to the victor belong the spoils" ... |
That's survivorship bias. You believe that because you came from a not-so-well-off family and did things that lead to your success, while ignoring the fact that there are many others who have done or tried the same thing and failed. It's like you don't even think of the "losers" as human.
