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So what? Some people are smarter than others, some are better looking, some have a bit of both. Some grow up in wealthy families and others in poor families.

You get dealt a hand, and you play with it. You can be good looking and do horrible in life. You can be not good looking and become immensely wealthy. It doesn't matter.

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> It doesn't matter.

It doesn't pre-determine your outcome.

It does matter, in that it helps to start out wealthy or smarter or better looking than your competition.

I think what he means is you shouldn't dwell on it. Make the best of what you do have and don't play the victim.

Have you even met anyone successful who whined about how disadvantaged they were? Or do they tell you what they did to overcome the odds onstead?

Survivorship bias.

Just because people can beat stacked decks doesn't make stacked decks okay.

Yes, genetics are a stacked deck. Aside from somehow modifying genes or picking a partner with wanted traits (intelligence, good looks, etc), there isn't really much you can do about it for now is there?

And there bound to be some people who are worse in everything. Suck to be these people.

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