RE: This Was My Town
It opens a whole different can of worms but I believe a great deal is due to luck. I mean, as Buffett says, we already won the ovarian lottery.
As he said at Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Shareholders Meeting in 1997, he knew he had won what he called the “ovarian lottery.”
“You don’t know whether you’re going to be born black or white. You don’t know whether you’re going to be born male or female,” he explained. “You don’t know whether you’re going to be born infirm or able-bodied. You don’t know whether you’re going to be born in the United States or Afghanistan.”
The ovarian lottery is “the most important event in which you’ll ever participate,” Buffett continued. “It’s going to determine way more than what school you go to, how hard you work, all kinds of things.”