Fair enough regarding the luck, but it is events beyond your control that, through no effort of your own, have massively influenced your ability to turn out well. I'm unsure how we can reconcile that with the idea that people find their positions solely through their own merit, unless we assume, like I did originally, that being born wealth makes you more meritorious.

> Pretty much every new government since the US or French revolutions have tried, and the outcomes have been less than ideal.

Are you saying that people in the United States were less free? Or just the same as they were before?