Absolutely. That's not to say that there aren't lazy jobseekers out there, or that there are some who don't really qualify for the term, burn there are millions of people simply looking for a chance at pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. It's kind of hard to do when those straps have been chopped up and sold as commodities, shipped overseas and repackaged in a country where a living wage is dollars a day and resold here at a premium.
To be successful, it seems to me you need two of the following; hard work, luck, starting capital, great guidance at a young enough age, natural talent, proper networking and a willingness to do whatever it takes, regardless of the morality or affect on others. Even still, if you have all of those and your background is in a career field that had died, or been outsourced since your start, we'd have to include precognition, ageless-ness, mystical ability to move anywhere at the snap of a finger and hope your children are old enough to fend for themselves.
Bottom line - when people are saying "if you're successful, luck had a part to do with it," they're not denigrating your hustle, your sweat, your struggles. They're letting you know that there are millions of people rig now with that same drive who aren't where you are. Have some basic empathy - labeling them as lazy and telling them to "pull themselves up" or "get a job" shows an amazing lack of that basic human quality. It's almost sociopathic.
