I'm not actually sure about that video NG. It's a nice story but the idea that it's a good description of the world we actually live in is not well borne out. While random events can happen to us, in the long run, many things are predictable. For example, the wealth of you based on the wealth of your parents. People chase predictability. Even the worst gambling addict does in fact get something predictable from their habit - they lose their money and they get dopamine hits. The dopamine hits is the reward and the money is the price.
The idea that everything is just a lottery or, a cosmic game of snakes and ladders, which that video implies might be comforting for some, but it's not. Clearly, some people have different dice from the start to other, but that video implies everyone has the same dice. Jeff Bezos for example wasn't really just some random dude who made a website and happened by chance to luck into it, if you read his history he was excelling and pretty much everything from highschool onwards. The question wasn't whether he'd get rich and his classmates wouldn't, it was exactly how much richer he would become. The guy became the senior vice president of a hedge fund before the age of 30, then decided to quit his job and make Amazon. The difference is you or me making Amazon vs this guy making Amazon. The luck here isn't in our dice rolls vs his, and he's #1 but it's only because he got lucky rolls along the way. The guy is very smart and he was born with a temperament where he works like a maniac. He was going to end up making something big, but the only question was what it was.
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