In reality serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message and it either connects for you or or it doesn't.
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.