For instance, consider this recent SN post. If you start out thinking that you should be able to do whatever you want, and make a good living from it wherever you want, then the world will disappoint. (This is what I'd like to know more about -- was her situation easier, in LA, at 24, twenty years ago?)

But if you start out w/ the assumption that the world owes you nothing, and you need to find a way to survive, it seems like you have options. And maybe more options than anyone has ever had.

But also, it's hard to see something entirely outside of your field of view. I can sympathize with that, too. But sympathy isn't a solution. The right model of the world is the solution, or most of it. I just don't know how right mine is.