Luck, wealth and persistence are all wrapped up together. The odds of success on your first try are slim. If you want to be "lucky" you need to take as many opportunities as you can despite failing. And having wealth to cushion the fall when you fail means life won't force you to stop taking chances.

Don't ignore what effect luck plays. I often think of what Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

To be fair, rich parents basically make it so you don't need to succeed to live a good life

Reddit also has a lot of formerly "gifted" kids who were convinced by adults in their lives that they had an inevitable trajectory towards greatness who didn't end up going as far as they thought because, as the quote implies; persistence matters more.

I don't in general have anything against people like this but I do find it mildy annoying any time a post regarding the downside of being smart yet unsuccessful, "high IQ" or similar subjects that they're all "this is me and I don't like it".

This is a quandary. Every result stems from different factors, different aspects involved. So socioeconomic advantage has an effect, luck has an effect, and your own persistence also has an effect. It takes wisdom to consider all these levels.

Luck and rich parents allow some people to be persistent through failures. Congrats to them, but some poor folks only have one failure and they are forever down. Being mindful of this isn't jealousy, it is being realistic.

Most people on Reddit don't understand what luck is, or most people in general. And ironically most of them could meme all day about the reasons to remember the name.

Still though, I've said it before and I'll say it again; if you get good at a couple things luck will find you.