[jandrese]

Try to get resources -> (luck roll) -> fail

Try to get resources -> (luck roll) -> fail

Try to get resources -> (luck roll) -> starve to death

You see this with people who always have some scheme in the pipeline and may have even had some modest success (and notoriety) with one of the schemes, but ends up dying alone and penniless anyway. They do the work, but never get the break. The world is just unfair sometimes.