There's an uneasiness, defeatist attitude that's downstream of getting exposure directly or indirectly to the perception that aspects of the game of life is rigged. In this case, it's human made systems that have over time or maybe right from the start designed in a way to favor certain players over others, intentionally or via accumulated advantages that compound across generations.
E.g here is financial systems, which is the main inspiration for this line of thinking. The simple reality that money makes money more easily than labor makes money.
Money is a charged emotion that makes it the easiest to evolve towards being rigged, given it encompasses survival, status, freedom, and security all at once.
I don't think the game of life in itself is rigged but I do understand partly some of the reasonings behind that, one of them being not everyone starts from level zero in terms of resources like money.
What is really the game of life by the way?
I don't know really, at least not the definition that's enough to satisfy my thinking mind.
However, one of the main aims of the game in my view is to live life to the fullest and to the best of one's ability.
In reality, I think there's lot of nuance to this perception with human made rigged games and if you consider that life is what you make of it, then experiencing the game's rigged episodes is just part of the terrain you're navigating.
If not, there's a whole introspection needed to come to terms with whether you're using "the game is rigged" as an accurate assessment of specific obstacles or as a blanket explanation that absolves you of the agency to find your own path despite the unfairness.
My mind goes to this meme above of the bus ride and one passenger is sitting on the side where all the bleak sceneries are located and the other sitting at the side where all the sunny sceneries are located and you have this third perspective of seeing both at the same time via the pictured position.
The third perspective only works to give a more accurate map of reality.
You can't execute from it when it's time to take action, as actions are ultimately taken from a first-person perspective, that's your specific seat on the bus, with whatever view you have and whatever you can reach from where you are.
Sometimes, I also think if this mindset borrows from the same mindset of perfection, i.e anything that doesn't seem perfect is therefore broken, rigged, and not worth engaging with.
Could it be people want to play perfect games?
For me, it would seem acceptable every time I get exposed to the game is rigged episodes to quickly frame it as there's this thing to be aware of, this structural reality I need to account for in my strategy, okay, got it, back to playing.
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