I won’t disagree there are more and less productive mindsets you can have about your situation. But mindset isn’t everything. You can choose to have a productiv

I won’t disagree there are more and less productive mindsets you can have about your situation. But mindset isn’t everything. You can choose to have a productive mindset while understanding the political choices that were made. And that is important because we can make political choices to fix the problems that have been caused. You can’t just grind your way out of neoliberalism. Your card analogy hides the fact that your cards weren’t dealt randomly. Opportunity isn’t evenly distributed. The cards were deliberately chosen. Politicians chose winners and losers when they rewrote the tax code to reward capital over labor, make it easier to ship your job overseas, cut funding for education, and now allow companies to buy up a quarter of new housing. And the only way those trends get reversed is if people become more aware of it, not less.