Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity
The upside, however, is that if you keep on plugging, the chances that things will eventually swing your way are very high... The big issues in life may be lotteries instead of fair wages, but they're lotteries whose payoff odds are actually good, and if you keep playing you're very likely to win, eventually.
For many people, yes. Not for everyone. To use your example about adult humans pairing up in a lasting way, the chances of this happening drop dramatically when you look at certain subsets of the population, for reasons that are easy to see with your model (whose structure I like): the opportunities are fewer and slimmer, so the odds of a situation stacking up in your favor is are also much slimmer. Based solely on mutually compatible gender preferences (and enough knowledge or assumed knowledge to act on them), for example, most straight adults encounter multiple orders of magnitude more potential partners than most gay adults do; to tie in a timely topic, the numbers are even scarcer for trans adults.