I am 4 days away from finishing comp sci. To get a credit out of the way, I signed up for some BS course on “tech and society”. Humanities types were happy to complain about how tech is destroying society, but mot a single one could define “algorithm”.
That's a dumb argument with survivor's bias. The lottery is external to them and present vanishingly-small winnings to people at random without affirmative agency.
People who participate in lotteries are statistically poorer.
Read the linked material. The metaphor of bootstraps was an impossible and Quixotic feat like perpetual motion that became coopted as a celebrated mythology of "self-made". There is no such animal, friend.
