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by Talanes 2150 days ago
Your trying to use their premise to insult them, but to do that you need to actually understand and keep within the premise.

The error that you have made being that in the scenario presented, the successful entrepreneur does not know that luck is the main reason for their success.

A better zinger would be something in the lines of suggesting that the poster only knows all this because of how acutely they have failed. Just as you have.