Interesting thing about life: you’re exactly where you should be. This is based on your intelligence, your judgement, your ability to take risk, and your willingness to take risk—all of which can be improved with effort (by you, and you alone).
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Many people in the invaded areas of Ukraine might take issue with that.
Where you are born and to whom, and what resources they had to support you through formative years all has a huge impact.
Most Americans have a much better life than similarly talented people in say Zimbabwe.
Many such people rightly spot that the "do one thing" is to move to the USA (other rich countries are available), but we mostly don't let them in.
Correct. What you are explaining falls into the category of “ability to take risk”. Yet no matter how bad a situation, you can always improve, even if it’s progress one millimeter at a time.