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Your own personal choices matter, and nobody succeeds completely on their own. I have a good career. I would have never gotten there if I didn't work my ass off to do it. I also would have never gotten there if it wasn't for the support of others - individuals in my life and resources that society made available to me. Both of those things can be and are true.

So, yes, you need to be willing to do the work to succeed. But that isn't a reason not to recognize that achieving success is much, much harder for some people than it is for others due to circumstances that are completely out of their control. And that we can and should be doing much better as a society to give everyone a good shot a making a decent life for themselves.