• tryitout
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    7 months ago

    The luck bit really clashes with the survivorship bias.

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      7 months ago

      I mean, he’s lucky he could bail on poverty. His dad got sick, and he didn’t have to stop working to care for his dad. He was seeing a doctor regularly to monitor his health, and could call it when his health started to really suffer, after just 10 months.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      “As a very rich person I was just unlucky to hit some health problems in this experiment. But all those yucky poor people? Nah, that’s morning to do with bad luck. That’s just bootstraps and laziness.” -Douchebag clueless millionaire experimenter