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Yesterday I took a Political Compass Test and the question came up "Some people are naturally unlucky" and since I don't believe in magic, curses, karma or any of that I voted "Strongly Disagree" and moved on, but then I put some thought into it and had to change my answer to "Agree" and here's why.

When I think of someone who is naturally unlucky I'm not talking about someone who got cursed for breaking a mirror or and nonsense like that, I'm talking about someone who was born in unfortunate circumstances. Someone who was born in a poor family or has horrible parents, growing up in a bad area, having a physical and/or mental illness, or anything that negatively affects their life. I'm not talking about something that happens later in someones life, I'm talking about what they were born with since nobody can choose where they are born or what family they were born with, and bad thing that happen later in life are things that everyone has to deal with at some time or another.
Can these unlucky people get out of their situations with enough effort? Of course they can, but they're going to have it a lot harder than someone who was blessed to have been raised in a stable environment with money (doesn't have to be rich), with good parents and live in a good neighborhood.

So I don't think that being unlucky has anything mystical to it, it's just the unfairness of the world.