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Realizing how much of life is just the Birth Lottery, I Can’t Stop Thinking About How Unfair Life Really Is.
Your country, family, money, education, connections, and even confidence a lot of it assigned before you can speak.
Yet people judge others like everyone started on equal difficulty settings.It’s a weird paradox to sit with. On one hand, you have to act like you have total control over your life just to stay motivated. On the other hand, looking around at how fundamentally unfair the distribution of initial luck can make the whole system feel incredibly cynical.
How do you guys reconcile this? Do you think recognizing the birth lottery makes people more empathetic, or does it just breed defeatism?
u/PracticeLeather7684 — 22 hours ago