[Ibby]

Every choice, every action, has a billion possible positive outcomes and a trillion possible negative outcomes. Things are so complex that it's impossible to predict the outcomes of all your decisions. "luck" is just which side of the statistical spread you happened to land on. of course personal effort matters far more than statistics can in the MIDDLE of the bell curve - where your luck is overall pretty neutral. Hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps can't mean a thing at the bottom end of the curve, just like no matter how bad your decision-making is, you aren't going to ruin yourself at the top end of the curve.

So you can't assume a SINGLE thing about someone's work ethic, choices, anything, by their socioeconomic status alone. You don't know where on the "luck" statistical bell curve they fall.