Re: Study says being rich is determined by chance rather than intelligence or talent
I am not entirely surprised by this at all actually, anecdotally I have always felt people who achieved success where mainly in the right place right time. Whether that be born to a certain family or class, or to a certain country, or area of a country, these things all effect where we will end up. Good to know us average folk can still make it in this rigged world 
In retrospect, I somehow agree, although I can that intelligence and talent has their merits in helping a person propel himself to a high status in terms of riches, I think that it pays to actually be "lucky" with what venture you enter into and the timing when you made your business. Some people, commonly those who pioneered in specific fields, are the ones that actually make it big because they were able to ride the wave of the business' uprising. I can compare to how early adopters of cryptocurrencies are now in a good state because they have gamble when it was beginning and is not harvesting the gain they so endured to get during the times when the values of cryptocurrencies are not that significant.