It’s not a matter of being “fortunate,” i.e. “lucky.” It seemed to me that the harder I worked, (several part time jobs, risk taking, BS and MS degrees, etc.) the “luckier” I got. Meritocracy is the key.
The USA has never been a democracy! Look it up! We are a Federal Representative Republic. The Democracy or democratic does not appear in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution of any of the 50 states. Just saying so does not make it so!
So did Al Gore.