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I believe working hard is a virtue, but acting as though it's a free ticket and extenuating circumstances aren't pummeling America is absurd. OP, I know you're getting pretty relentlessly disregarded here, but let me put it this way;

Americans were told by a generation of people who paid 1/30th for things like college & living that "just work hard" was the solution. Yet still, wages decline, prices increase, debt increases, and the middle class shrinks.

Let's say you are an economic advisor and your solution is "work harder" and after 30 years it's clear that the suggestion you are putting forward isn't working. You'd be fired. You wouldn't be kept on by anybody actually looking to fix the issues at hand because the reality is the issues need more repair than individual work.

Here's the fact of the matter: The people saying "you will succeed if you work hard enough" typically have safety nets. They are often rich or at least in a stable position with connections or family to provide support if things go south. What I've just described does not describe most of impoverished America. It doesn't describe much of rural America, it doesn't describe much of urban America, it really only describes chunks of suburban America that are rapidly being beaten down by a lack of financial stability.

You can preach that hard work is a virtue, but telling people to break a brick wall by slamming their face into it is just fucking silly.