1) "Luck" is being in the right place at the right time. The more skillful you are, the more likely you are to find the right place. The more driven you are, the more time you spend there. Sure - maybe it's a roulette wheel, like your uncle says. If you don't think there's strategy to roulette you've never gambled.

2) Apple has the highest market cap in the world because they sell products that people want and buy. We should table that discussion - I'm plenty pissed at apple for a number of reasons - but I have three Mac laptops, two mac desktops, a hackintosh, three iPhones and a 1st gen iPod in this house. I built my first PC at the age of ten. My father built the first network at the Department of Energy, about the same time as ARPANET, and had, at one point, 6,500 PCs under his control. I know macs. I know PCs. When you say "point of evidence Apple" all you do is appear ignorant.

3) "A fool and his money are soon parted" yet the people who buy overpriced artwork STAY RICH. Again - you're not looking clever here.

4) The department of fabricated statistics is not welcome, nor applicable in this debate.