Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Why is luck important?

The idea that cultural success comes from geographic chance, rather than anything inherent in race or biology, is a significant concept for many reasons. It shows that all our modern constructs of "First World" and "Third World" countries come from absolute happenstance. Luck, or the lack of it, has made our world into what it is today.

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