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by bennybob 2606 days ago
I couldn't agree more. It's a toxic mentality, it allows people to just say successful / rich people must have ripped someone off or just been really lucky. Dealing with fear of failure has turned into my biggest obstacle in life.
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I don’t think they “ripped people off”. But it is luck and too many “self made” people attribute too much to their own skill.