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Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time
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Sounds like the ol' freewill, vs determinism debate.
Philosophers will squabble over this crud 'til we're all blue in the face.
Economics? Our situation will greatly influence the outlook of masses. Should you live in a boom-time? Folks will espouse the merits of freewill. Whatever fruits they've grabbed, they want to believe/assert it was due to their initiative. THEY did it all!
Depression, war or bust-period? Then it's determinism by default. In bad times, people turn to ancient philosophies, to explain away suffering. By extension, one needn't accept a degree of responsibility for any lousy, current scenario.
It's a very difficult discipline to keep your philosophies on fate independent from your current financial-reality.
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