America is perhaps the pinnacle of "got successful mostly by luck but believes it was all hard work". The pinnacle of successful self-delusional narratives. We like stories, but this is taking it too far.
It will never stop being funny how adamant Americans are that lottery winners win the lottery because they deserve to win the lottery. Like people will point to Peter Thiel investing early in Facebook as proof of some sort of genius or prescience. That’s not true! That’s not how investing works! That’s not how anything works!
