This seamless stream shows why bad luck doesn’t get evened out, why it amplifies instead. Have some particular unlucky gene variant, and you’ll be unluckily sensitive to the effects of adversity during childhood. Suffering from early-life adversity is a predictor that you’ll be spending the rest of your life in environments that present you with fewer opportunities than most, and that enhanced developmental sensitivity will unluckily make you less able to benefit from rare opportunities that might arise, because you may not understand them, may not recognize them as opportunities, may not have
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