If you are depressed and find your life monotone and unfulfilling (which I don't know about them, but if you make a post like that on 4chan, that might be an indicator), knowing your relative privilege probably won't make you happier.
How so? I mean, they seem to have been successful, in a sense, and nothing bad seems to have happened, but when you say 'nothing happened' I feel like you want to say that literally nothing else of significance happened, neither good nor bad. Seems like a rather boring, depressing life.
Yes but you wouldn't happy with that kind of outcome, you'd spend every day hoping for something more interesting to happen, perhaps even hoping for a loss to make things interesting after a certain point.
I feel like Lucky usually has the connotation that you wanted the outcome.
Also, they might have helped their chances by being very competent, but having very low people skills. I feel like that would improve the probability of something like this.