If they are not, it must be bad luck:
President Obama addresses graduates at Howard University…
Obama told the graduating class that success is based more on luck, not hard work, and those who achieve great things do so because the fates have shined brightly upon them.
Successful people are “just lucky,” Obama said, Breitbart reported. “It wasn’t nothing you did.”
Obama doesn’t want to give these kids bad advice. He said this because he actually believes this. It is inherent to his psychology. Resources are supposed to be free. If they are at your feet, that is how it is supposed to be. If they aren’t it can only be bad luck.
This is a mind programmed to graze on free resources, to the point that such a world is all they can imagine. A world of limited resources, where your work earns you a proportional amount of resources, is unimaginable.
Where the problems for such people arise is when resources aren’t free. They are entirely unprepared for that, and that is exactly what is coming.
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I have to wonder how much of a number spending his formative years in Hawaii contributed. He was already well steeped in r, but then he comes of age in a tropical paradise where if you are hungry, you can literally just puck fruit from the trees and seafood from the ocean — and then he experienced that from a viewpoint of Western wealth on top of it.
I’d bet Obama would take great umbrage if you suggested his success was a matter of luck, and his supporters would be quick to call “Racist”. r-strategists live in a world where we are all equal, and none should be allowed to have more than others.
It is completely understandable that Obama feels this way, since everything was given to him, all his paths were smoothed for him. The hidden hand which gave him everything he has, is interpreted by him as good luck.