I have a similar experience but have a different opinion. I am 100% lucky that I was in the right place at the right time so that I could be offered the opport

I have a similar experience but have a different opinion. I am 100% lucky that I was in the right place at the right time so that I could be offered the opportunities that I had. But I think you have to be disciplined in that you must try and try and try to do everything in your power to put yourself in the right place. Of course, even if you do this, you might never be given the opportunity. But if you don't try, you _definitely_ won't. Many of the people I grew up with did not do this. They had the ability to do it, but they lacked initiative or the ambition. They were complacent with what they had, even though it was very little. Not everyone comes from an unbroken home, or had a support network to do these things - I get that. But I see many people that could do better and just don't do it for what I'd guess is because it's hard. Instead they make bad decisions that are easy and increase quality of life on the short term: racking up debt, having kids at a young age without a career, etc. Do people not shoulder some of the blame in today's information age?