Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
My father and I have somewhat productive political conversations: He's fiscally conservative, I tend towards the liberal side of the scale.<p>Drilling in to find what we really disagree about, it seems to boil down to two concepts:  (1) I view success as a matter of luck that your effort can make better or worse.  He views effort as the single most important deciding factor in success in life  (2) I'm willing to tolerate an amount of "unfairness" in people getting help they "don't deserve", while he finds this very offensive.<p>I honestly feel that if considered luck to be a larger factor and effort to be a lesser factor, his political stances would change pretty dramatically.  (same applies to me in reverse).  I wonder how much the social willingness to accept luck as a factor impacts popular political positions.  (Perhaps not much, as the author in the article promotes a consumption tax, which is generally seen as more regressive)