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If that was true we'd have much more billionaires and they'd be distributed all around the world.

All the lottery winners who cashed out on prizes higher than 750M are in the US because no other country has such high jackpots

In order to be a billionaire you have to win the genetic lottery first and foremost, then the geographic lottery and then thoudands of business lotteries with each and every decision going your way.

Why is it that some people can win the business lottery consistently while other people can't however much they try? How come people can learn to win the business lottery? Isn't that what we call skill?

Random doesn't imply uniformly distributed.

Distributed all around the world doesn't imply uniformly.

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