The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe (pg. 237)

Lacking any guarantee that slow-but-steady, follow-the-rules, and trust-in-the-future behavior will ever pay off, 13ers tend to view the world as run by lottery markets in which a person either lands the one big win or goes nowhere. They have constructed a flinty ethos of self-determination in which being rich or poor has less to do with virtue rather than with timing, salesmanship, and luck. What people get is simply what they get and is not necessarily related to what they may or may not deserve.