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Society doesn't reward hardworking people. Society rewards hardworking people who work on the right things in an intelligent manner. If you experience failure in your life, you are already very lucky.
There is too much idealization of people who are making a lot of money. So there is not enough respect for people who are actually providing value to everyone around them on a daily basis.
Ideas to keep in mind in order to live a life without regret. People with little agency often spend their time complaining about how most advice don't apply to their circumstances.
People with agency tend to read between the lines and find useful interpretation, regardless of how irrelevant to them the original piece of advice even was.