Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

It's only words... unless they're true.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.