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Both were lucky to hear about bitcoin, one was just also ignorant/stupid/whatever for too long; like most of us were the first time we heard about bitcoin.
I think the point I am trying to make is that it's too easy to think when something good happens to us, it's because we earned it 100% and there was absolutely no luck involved. But when something bad happens to us, the world is against us. I am obviously overgeneralizing, but I would say that is something we all experienced in ourselves or in others at some point.
I think all we can do in life is to increase our chances of luck. That's not luck, but there is still some luck required in the end to be successful; whatever that means to you.
Btw, thanks for the reply, I usually don't know how to talk about what I want to talk about when nobody asks me about it, lol.
Thanks for posting an interesting philosophical problem! Maybe there is an issue with the word "luck". It seems to be used in two ways. 1) in regards to initial conditions or things outside our control, and 2) in regards to good outcomes of decisions we make in the past. I totally agree with #1 that luck is involved, but #2 is a problem especially when I see people using it to diminish someone's ability to make a good judgement call, which was what I was getting at in my little thought experiment. For #2 I think it's not fair to call it it luck as there was clearly some choice involved. But honestly I'm not totally sure.
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