> Preamble: I'm extremely lucky. If we live in a Simulation and life is just a Video Game, mine was started on difficulty level “Very Easy”: I was born in a developed country in the 80s (Italy), with access to fresh water, very good carbohydrates and a decent education system. So what you're going to read is 99% luck and 1% planets alignment. Please, correct success stories for selection bias.
(Not all, so no need to add your personal story here. But most.)
Which kind of elides the fact that his father was a sitting US Congressman. Investors were willing to give large sums of money to a man in his early twenties so he could flip manufacturing firms. Ovarian lottery doesn't quite cover it.
This might be the origin of the metaphor: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-t...
What's the alternative? How else could you write an article that conveys the steps you took to achieve a goal, if not to write the steps you took?