



Is being successful still as valuable or noteworthy if you basically had no chances to fail due to wealth or societal privileges?
I wrote a MyTake a while ago about how I had nothing growing up, how even today I still have no looks, no height advantages, and literally nothing to call an "advantage" in society, and I still get pissed off at that. How I work my ass off throughout life and have nothing to show for it, yet some tall attractive women from Californian can start an OnlyFans and become multi-millionaires. I get life is super unfair and all, but still get angry that I'm 35 and have nothing to show for myself, despite all the hard work I put in. And the "doomed to die alone" crap because I was born with the wrong genetics extra-infuriates me. It makes life seem completely pointless.
I can never tell if it's solely my fault that I have literally no positives or advantages in life and I ended up this way, or if some external circumstances like my background, play a part.
We can tell that, at least for Americans, things are becoming much more unfair. I was raised to think if you worked hard, you would be rewarded. That used to be generally true. Now if you work hard youāre still apt to get laid off or, if lucky, end up with āinflation raisesā that donāt keep up with inflation. Corporate culture is crooked as hell and is in many cases nothing to do with merit. Our elite are voracious and are acting with the intent to drive almost everyone out of their assets (making them dependent and easily controlled). Social instability, gender confusion, and the abandonment of monogamy have resulted in a radical and continuing increase in young men who cannot find girlfriends or spouses and many women without family after failing to gain commitment from the men they chase. The internet has arguably been very bad for many people, with social media causing an increase in self-harm among girls and with many men addicted to porn or video games.
Viewed from the perspective of progressive history, which is the only history taught in our institutions, this is all part of the inevitable onward and upward march of progress and liberation. However, from the perspective of cyclical history, all of these phenomena fit well and are not surprising in a late-stage, declining civilization. The top-line numbers (GDP, technological power, etc.) improve but become more and more concentrated in a voracious, amoral elite. All of this is to say that if we were in 1980 relationships and finances would have been much better for a large number of people, even though the Westās cultural decline had set in well before then.
I grasp for answers myself and trust me, I have not gone through life unscathed and have had to adjust my expectations in some areas and get used to uncertainty in others in ways that were difficult. That said, I donāt for a minute think either of us are doomed to anything. Anyone reading your posts can gather that you are hard working, creative, well spoken, and authentically who you are. Those count for a lot, even now.
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Regarding the update: Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Celebrities seem to be venerated regardless of if their success was given or earned.
Wealth is often hated sometimes even for those that are self-made, but especially when they aren't.
There are also many things that require such privileges, like needing to be attractive to be an actor.
Not as related, but I'm also pretty grateful we live today rather than hundreds of years ago. Most of us would be farmers that would likely never become much else. We wouldn't be able to have much success at all if not for the philosophical, economic, and technological developments that give us the privileges we have today.
Personally, I don't tend to judge people's successes and evaluate whether it is "correct" for them to have them or not. Their successes are generally still accomplishments, or at least the accomplishments of someone else compounded (wealth, upbringing, genes, etc.)
@purplepoppy You don't care about social classes. You just want to see a room full of naked men.
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