Luck Is Not an Answer
20 June 2026 We use the word luck with suspicious generosity. Someone gets promoted. Lucky. Someone launches a business at exactly the right moment. Lucky. Someone prepares carefully, makes a sensible decision, and still loses. Unlucky. The word is useful. It can explain success, failure, envy, relief, resentment, and surprise without requiring much excavation. It is a small verbal curtain. Once we pull it across an outcome, the investigation tends to end....
