Oh please. How else can you explain that despite being 12% of the US population, only one out of the 403 US billionaires is black? That's more than a small advantage, it's practically a requirement. I'm not saying they didn't try hard or they weren't significantly gifted, but success comes much easier when the odds aren't totally stacked against you by the proud human tradition of racism.
Your comparisons of race to personality traits are particularly curious. Being born white (and male) isn't a "gift" unless patriarchal white society enforces it. This isn't sports -- there is no significant correlation between genetic advantages and being rich.
Being born white and male is, however, a circumstance.
Shall we remember the mantra "correlation is not causation"? A high incidence of white male billionaires does not necessarily make white maleness "practically a requirement" for billionaireship.
>This isn't sports -- there is no significant correlation between genetic advantages and being rich.
I'm pretty sure that it's impossible to make this statement definitively, and that it's also untrue. Those with "genetic" predispositions that lend toward perseverance, independence of thought and action, etc., are much more likely to become rich than those who don't have or eventually acquire such traits.
Your comparisons of race to personality traits are particularly curious. Being born white (and male) isn't a "gift" unless patriarchal white society enforces it. This isn't sports -- there is no significant correlation between genetic advantages and being rich.