That's a dumb argument with survivor's bias. The lottery is external to them and present vanishingly-small winnings to people at random without affirmative agency.
People who participate in lotteries are statistically poorer.
Read the linked material. The metaphor of bootstraps was an impossible and Quixotic feat like perpetual motion that became coopted as a celebrated mythology of "self-made". There is no such animal, friend.
People who participate in lotteries are statistically poorer.
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https://themillionairenextdoor.com/2011/09/any-economically-...