Chance favours the fortunate. Any other discussion of chance is really an examination of hidden causes, and not cance at all. Steven Johnson, for example, says chance favours the connected. But what he really means is that by being connected people obtain better result sthan by not being connected. The cause of this is not chance, but the connection. Calling it 'chance' just appears to the 'luck' theory of causation. Of which - as Las Vegas has proven to its eternal profitability - there is no such thing. Just probabilities.
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