Is control over your life just an illusion? Here's a game that has you making life decisions based on the roll of a die

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@anotherone

As for the subject of self determination vs random chance in influencing the outcome of a persons life, I’m not so sure there is an answer to this artificially binary choice. It seems to me that for some people it is the choices they have made which have had the greatest impact upon their lives just as random chance has been the greatest influence on others. I expect most of us fall somewhere in the middle.

I dunno, the circumstances of birth are completely random chance, while exhibiting the strongest correlation to life outcomes- if you’re born into a wealthy educated family, you stand a ~90%+ chance of dying wealthy and educated. Roughly same odds or maybe higher if you’re born into a poor family.

So choices can certainly have an impact, but the dominant variable in life is birth. I also suspect that random encounters play a larger role in successful outcomes for non-wealthy people (wealthy people don’t need to rely on these encounters because they are baked in via networking.)