Being rich is not about hard work. Its about pure luck

From lottery winners to inheritors of great fortune. I honestly believe becoming rich is pure luck. Read all the bios of great movie actors, singers, billionairs.

All of these people have that one luck factor that got them where they are now.

Then you have people who worked hard all their lives and never amounted to sh^t.

Who agrees

It's very much a case to case basis.

You can't really compare the heir to a billion dollar fortune to the entrepreneur who worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week, for ten years to create his multimillion dollar franchise.

Originally posted by Astner
It's very much a case to case basis.

You can't really compare the heir to a billion dollar fortune to the entrepreneur who worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week, for ten years to create his multimillion dollar franchise.

The vast majority is still luck

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
The vast majority is still luck

There's an element of luck in it always (like, not being born in a particular war torn part of Somalia, for example), but I'd even agree that luck is a very huge factor in most people who are or become extremely wealthy.

It generally goes hand in hand though, you don't usually become rich if you aren't hard working or skilled...

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
The vast majority is still luck

Both is usually the case.

It's neither. Wealth is gained or lost by your ability to perform fellatio on strangers behind pubs.

Hence, the excessive wealth Backfire and I possess.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Both is usually the case.

This. But sound investing with a middle class job for about 30 years can make you a millionaire (or a multi-millionaire if you add a spouse doing the same). A big part of it is planning; though of course parental wealth increases your chances.

Hard work and pure luck are both acceptable answers.

I guess when factoring luck, it's not just scratch-off winnings or inheritance so much as being good at and pursuing a career in a field that society disproportionately rewards. After all, it might be lucky to get a career as a police cadet or a medical student, but even with hard work both career choices do not net millionaires. Luck seems entirely relative. But some guy throwing a football or some suit speculating on goods he possesses only in name may potentially be given more wealth than he can rationally deal with, because of both luck and society's bias towards that field. Even if what they do for society isn't worth the wealth they are being given.

The poll needs an option for "dumb topic"

I agree that we definitely need to get rid off the homosekshu-- oh, sorry, wrong thread.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
It's neither. Wealth is gained or lost by your ability to perform fellatio on strangers behind pubs.

Hence, the excessive wealth Backfire and I possess.

Eh, neither of you was that good...

Originally posted by Tzeentch
It's neither. Wealth is gained or lost by your ability to perform fellatio on strangers behind pubs.

Hence, the excessive wealth Backfire and I possess.

Oh, you do it for money? Greedy shit.

It's all about the Money, Money, Money. Actually I think it is a bit of both hard work and luck.

It's also about lying, cheating and stealing. Just ask Madoff, Milken, Lay, etc, etc...

Originally posted by Omega Vision
The poll needs an option for "dumb topic"

😂

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f11/t590168.html

There's a rebuttal to your "pure luck" theory (which sets up a false dichotomy anyway, but I'll ignore the flawed premise for the sake of argument). Although, to be fair, that thread is more about becoming wealthy (or at least comfortable...I don't know what your threshold is for "rich"😉, not about starting wealthy, which is indeed a bit more of a product of one's birth and status.