Well, depends upon how you measure success, or perhaps more so, what you are measuring in terms of it's success.
For example, a poor person who lives to be 100 is more successful than a millionaire who dies of cancer aged 43.
Or in a salad, grated cheap fresh carrots will be more successful than expensive rotten carrots...Similarly cheap tasty cheddar and mouldy expensive salmonella infected French goo.
Fresh sliced bread or old mouldy stale sourdough artisan hand crafted over priced pretentious shit.
Etc Etc.