From Robert Sapolsky’s Determined:
We are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck, over which we had no control, that has brought us to any moment.
Despite being sympathetic to it, I won’t rehash an argument for Sapolsky’s hard determinism.
However, one of the things I most appreciate about the view is that everybody acknowledges it is true to some degree — the only question is where to draw the boundary: does luck influence much of our life, or the vast majority, or 100% of it?