Success vs Luck!!! Is One Person Solely Responsible for their Own Success? Should Factors Such As Luck and Public Infrastructure Be Considered? Is this A Uniquely American Question? Why So Emotional?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: How important is luck?  Few questions more reliable divide conservatives and liberals.  As conservatives correctly observe people who amass great fortunes are almost always extremely talented and hard-working.  But as liberals also rightly note countless others have those same qualities yet never earned much.  In recently years social scientists have discovered that chance events play a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people once imagine. This paragraph comes from the book Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.  The author is Robert H. Frank.  You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Success-Luck-Good-Fortune-Meritocracy/dp/0691167400/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674661150&sr=8-1 Zac and Don discuss the book and it's ideas surrounding the controversial topic of individual success.  Is one person solely responsible for their success or should factors such as luck and collective infrastructure also be taken into account?  They also wonder if all of the book's ideas totally fit together into a cohesive book.