This is sort of true, in that nobody deserves what they get 100% of the time. Nobody can choose the circumstances they're born with, nobody can control everything that happens to them. As far as you can deserve anything, I think it can only be something you made through your own sacrifice and sweat.
You can work hard and make all the right decisions and still fail. That's true in life and it's true in the entertainment industry, You can work 36-hour days and apply some craft to your writing and some hack can still sail past you, propelled by the force of their own staccato farts.
Some people are just lucky. But I only start to dislike them when they show no self-awareness and take all the credit for themselves.
EDIT: clarity