You don't have to sell me on the superiority of good infrastructure and moral labor practices. I and many people I know advocate for them in the United States,

You don't have to sell me on the superiority of good infrastructure and moral labor practices. I and many people I know advocate for them in the United States, constantly. I'm sure you did make wise choices in addition to your good luck. But unless you were born to a well-to-do family in the United States, those wise choices would not have been feasible. The choices you'd make in their place, no matter how prudent you were, would likely yield less. There's a good chance you'd likely end up exactly like the OP. That's the whole point of those benefits— they aren't just for your convenience. They give you opportunities and protect you from risks through no action of your own. Not being born into those benefits is not a moral failure. Proudly pointing out your avoidance of someone else's work or mental health problems when you have vastly more work and mental health support, in general, is utterly obnoxious. It's like someone living off of a trust fund pointing out that they also made prudent financial decisions as justification for publicly touting their financial solubility in the face of someone else's poverty.