I am jealous of this article. But also, did you try to place it in a magazine? It's so Atlantic style.
How do you pick when to submit to places that might take months to respond vs publications here on Medium?
@ the article itself... Darren Brown has a special where he turns a whole town lucky and follows a handful of people who claimed to be the unluckiest people in the world.
And you see a lot of what you are talking about about here. It'd be up your alley.
This is a badass article. Glad it popped in my feed.