Comment by Libidinalecon

I think this is because of the protestant work ethic + probability/statistics instead of deterministic chaos.

Deterministic chaos in the sense of "fixed, non-random rules producing outcomes that are unpredictable in the long term due to extreme sensitivity to initial conditions".

A life lottery of initial conditions and then it plays out via deterministic chaos is just such an unacceptable idea to the modern protestant self conception.

Instead we will continue to pretend the harder you work the luckier you get because at least then we have some free will in the situation.

Buffet is a great example and has made this point practically. Won the life lottery to not have been born in the year 1400 and the idea of buying 6 packs of coke to sell to my friends for a profit as a little boy is just not in my nature, again because of my initial conditions.