LogFAQs > #976916276

Do you think that you are a self-made person?
Do you think that your mistakes are your fault? Do you own up to them?
Are you satisfied with your life? Do you think your path to satisfaction is somehow universal, and that other people will prosper if they do what you did?

The amount of smug people on Reddit dispensing useless advice to people struggling with life is staggering. By all means, people should do whatever they can for a better life if they're not comfortable with the one they have. Genuine advice is always cool to see, but so many people just want to post about how successful they are, or how they survived X, Y, and Z hardships and how it is no big deal and you just need to "get tough" or some variant of that. The existence of suicides and homeless camps and various other states of "failure" indicate that, no, not everybody makes it, and I'd just dare somebody to say such people didn't try hard enough.

I wonder how many people, for example, who claim to be making six figures online are actually just doing the minimum wage work they so look down on in their posts in reality.