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Yeah you've got a bunch of adults with failed dreams putting blame on everyone else for their screwups, when they could get farther in their life if they put in effort.

It's only 99% luck if you do absolutely nothing to change it. Put in the effort, and you can drastically reduce that percentage.

It's like wannabe writers or artists who don't put in the work to promote their projects. Some wanna publish a book, but they just spend their time NOT entering writing contests, going out of their way to meet and speak with current/former agents, get reviewed, etc. and instead spend their days smoking pot and complaining that they were dealt a bad hand at getting somewhere with their goals.

... Like, no shit you're not getting anywhere, and you have NO ONE to blame but yourself.
So glad I broke out of that brainwashed and victimized mindset.

I know a few people who COULD have done more with their lives, but they chose not to. And they blame the system.
It's pathetic how little accountability people have nowadays. And given my age, I shouldn't even be one of the ones saying it.

Look at all the failed dreams here on CE for proof. They'll blame others, but they'll conveniently leave out the part of being a lazy ass and not working towards their goals when they could have been.

The USA is indeed the land of opportunity, but its citizens are too complacent to take advantage of those avenues like foreigners do: it's one of the things that makes the USA so appealing to prospective immigrants in the first place.