I think that view is very bias and looking for someone to blame. How exactly the government is looking to crash what people individual goals are? The law usually applies to everyone and if this destruction was really going on by the government you will see it across the board, not just to you.

But just saying it won't convince you, so here is an example. How many kids go to school every day? How many advance from one year to the next? How many learn to read? How many can read about business? How many learn to make sales? How many can show business skills and work for people that need to sell products on the street?

So you see how many people are achieving their goals, small goals but goals nevertheless. At no point did the government played a factor in that. If any, the government did provided the school an education they needed, the electrical infrastructure and also the water and sewerage that they need to keep living. But even if they failed to provide it, you can still achieve those goals. No matter if you are in Nigeria, or Kenya, or Congo, or Botswana or Indonesia.

I am not saying life is perfect and poverty is an excuse, but how many people move and start from scratch and reinvent themselves? Immigrants that come from conflict areas, or that want to escape their country like Cuba and come to a regular country and build themselves again.