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Marche noir wrote:

Except you're missing the whole point of invoking God and the Invisible Hand is that they are not random, like luck; instead, they supposedly distribute rewards to those who are hard working and/or devout. If you aren't a winner, in other words, it's your own fault, because you didn't work or pray hard enough. This is entirely different from the idea of luck, and in fact bringing the idea of luck into the picture actually challenges elite rhetoric, because it suggests that one's wealth is not the direct result of hard work, but of random factors like where and when you were born.

Like God and the market, luck (again, not probability or good fortune) is an external force that will supposedly provide for the faithful. And like God and the market, luck does not exist.

I think where we differ is that I am a variety of leftist that will not dismiss wealth as "good luck." Indeed, if the proletariat is to rise, it will, in fact be through very hard work. Luck will have nothing to do with it, and any dellusion to the contrary will only serve the elite (who are, in fact, working very hard - if not ethically - to stay elite).

This is why I rejected the idea that one should feel luck to be alive, as the notion suggests that I should be satisfied with a menial and class-oppressed position. Because, like, it could be like totally worse and stuff man.

Bullshit :)