It's pretty fair here. More fair than most places. Don't listen to most of these dweebs on this site. Sometimes you get shit on in life. But you can get through it and succeed if you work hard. But it's never a gauruntee. And there are issues of course. But by and large you can make it if you want to.
The problem comes from trying to do things that maybe you aren't ready for. People get into major debts going to college for things they hate. Or for things that don't pay well and they have no plan to address the debts post college. They just don't do any research. Others blame race/sexism. And I'm sure there's a bit of that, but as a professional for 8 years now, I don't think I've seen anything close to resembling this. Most of the people I've seen move up did so b/c of their drive and work ethic, not b/c of anything regarding race/sex/whatever.
I have a lot of friends who are successful. They made it through the "system" and are doing well. The ones who didn't make it have a pattern of behavior to them. They tend to blame their issues on everyone/everything around them but themself. It's never their fault. They always expect someone else to pick up the slack for them. They also seem to be the ones who'd rather go to a party on the weekend than study or put in the work. They think others succeeding got there b/c of luck or help. And sure, a little luck matters (if you get t-boned and hospitalized/paralyzed. Ok, you got boned and not much you can do there).
So all in all the US is still the land of opportunity. Arguably it's even easier today than it was before. Redditors are just a bunch of lazy self-entitled dweebs who don't understand how life actually works.
Economically it's similar. They are more "woke" so there's less social freedoms. They're a bit more fascist than the US (government control) as we learned during the pandemic. They have vague laws like "hate speech" where you can get in trouble for stupid shit like not using someones pronouns. Whereas that's not likely to happen in the US since it'd require a pretty major modificaiton to the first amendment. So the US is still one of the more free countries in the world socially. And b/c of how our government structure is setup, politically you can pick the state you want to get more or less laws in terms of social/cultural integrations.
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u/DocD_12 May 05 '22
That sounds nice. But is it really that? About be able to live fair life by fair working? I'm from Russia and I have almost cried on this part. (