There is a disconnect when growing up being told we live in "the freest country in the world" only to collide with adulthood where everything requires papers, permits, taxes, registration, and waiting on bureaucracy when it isn't entirely illegal for arbitrary and unjust reasons.
Chronic illness just makes it all harder.
And then the prior generations who erected all the red tape and prohibitions telling we're just lazy whiners.
But then I see people who choose poorly and want to blame others. People who seem to be magnetically attracted to abusive relationships. People who spend recklessly and then wonder why every paycheck disappears covering old bills. That sort of thing. Those are not outside factors. Those are on you.
Here, here! Well said.