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English, 30.03.2021 20:40 elizabethseoane1829

1 Read the following quote from Michael Lewis's speech "Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie".
"But you must sense its arbitrary aspect: you are the lucky few. Lucky in your parents, lucky in your country, lucky that a place like Princeton
exists that can take in lucky people, introduce them to other lucky people, and increase their chances of becoming even luckier. Lucky that
you live in the richest society the world has ever seen, in a time when no one actually expects you to sacrifice your interests to anything."
Why does the speaker repeat the word "lucky? How does it help him make his point?

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