So the solution is to chase whatever the market dictates as "well paying", despite being against your interests, maybe drop whatever responsibilities you might have or just, like you say, live in mediocrity, if your socio economic situation forked your chances from the beginning, and your inherent abilities just don't cut it? Do you walk by the less fortunate, and think, they just didn't work hard enough and "kind of" are at fault for their own situation? Because that's a very typical American way of thinking, one that people adapt in America to cope with the poverty around them. I've seen it, from aquinteces who became big, moved to America, and slowly changed their view of people to cope with their suffering and their own fortune, partly due to a really badly made social system. And unfortunately, there are plenty of places like this besides America.
