>You're 30 still living with your parents, you won't amount to anything. More like, fail to achieve cultural expectations, "you won't amount to anything." The

>You're 30 still living with your parents, you won't amount to anything. More like, fail to achieve cultural expectations, "you won't amount to anything." The average guy living at home at 30 in USA is probably not as geared towards success as the average person living at home at 30 in a country where something else is the measure of success. There are exceptions but people who meet their own countries standards tends to correlate with overall life success. Clearly you can buck the cultural expectations and succeed, so it's not a hard and fast rule. Of course, some cultural expectations are more difficult to overcome than others: if you piss publicly next to the highway it could earn you a felony charge and torpedo your career, even though there's no practical reason why pissing by the side of the road should make you a lifelong failure.