According to Einstein, volition or free will, initiative and effort had NOTHING to do with his rise to great fame and fortune. It was DNA and the usual effort and hard work that just being a healthy person entails.  

Here's the Protestant Calvinist version of free will.  There isn't any. If god chooses you for earthly riches and admiration and success and happiness,  you are elected .  You don't earn it, you don't deserve it.    it's called election.  

Life is unfair.