The just-world fallacy - the belief that the world is fundamentally fair and people deserve their circumstances. People who lucked out in life tend to believe this for the reasons you said.
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2·14 days agoThat’s me some mornings. I wake up, do my morning routine - SYKE! It was a dream and I’m still asleep. Repeat like 5 infuriating times.
If that was my whole life right now, I’m at least glad I’m not aware of it. That would be hell.
Not really anymore. I think it was definitely the dominant messaging in the 2010s when people were fighting to be rewarded for their hustle (e.g., lean-in feminism, LGBTQ consumerism, Asian Americans as tech entrepreneurs, rise of the [insert minority here] owned business labeling, etc.), but I find the pendulum has been swinging back the other way towards nihilist external-locus-of-control counterculture. I think we are slowly realizing as a society that we can’t, in fact, work our asses out of systemic oppression by the elites.