I LOVE learning new things by engaging with people I disagree with (and sometimes change my mind!) The way to succeed at that process is to avoid asserting nonsensical extremes. Of course there's a correlation between hard-work and success, but it's not a strict one. There are lots of cases where two people worked equally hard and intelligently and one succeeds where the other fails. That luck factor is separate from all the systematic things that put people at all sorts of different privileges already.
From everything I understand about the world (from personal experience and from reading and learning from others), there's a strong correlation between success and unearned privileged that is at least arguably a stronger correlation than the one about hard work. So, the most success comes from all three factors: luck, privilege, and hard work — put together.
It seems like you think even acknowledging luck and privilege is tantamount to denying the significance of hard work.
From everything I understand about the world (from personal experience and from reading and learning from others), there's a strong correlation between success and unearned privileged that is at least arguably a stronger correlation than the one about hard work. So, the most success comes from all three factors: luck, privilege, and hard work — put together.
It seems like you think even acknowledging luck and privilege is tantamount to denying the significance of hard work.