Originally Posted by aka123

I didn't say anything about some 99,99 % of people. And wealth is a pie to divide per moment. Wealth in general is not fixed of course, but per moment it is (spot picture), and can be even in the long term, here comes the economic equality in question (the "pie" issue). In enough equal societies there is variety, but the "base layer" rises. So in very rich society a bum could have beach house, but the rich ones have some resident house in Mars (assuming that is luxury).

You want it or like or not, but the big picture has huge influence in our lives, the part to where we can influence little to none. For example you can't influence to the time you live on. You weren't born at stone age, but not thanks to you as you had zero influence to it. Same goes with many things. We like to think that we are more in charge and succesful people especially like to think that the success is all because of their accomplishes. Well, it is a nice story anyways. And I don't mean that forward going wouldn't help to bring success, yes it does, but no matter how hard you tried at stone age, you couldn't travel in space, as space travel is a result from huge bunch of peoples work during thousands of years. So it's not just up to you.