“That is all true. That is true everywhere, the squeaky wheel...”
Yes, and people who are afraid to try to succeed don’t want anyone else to succeed and make them look bad. So they spend a lot of time telling boogie-man stories about why success is impossible.
I will say, there is a perverse thing I see around here where some people appear to want some bad things to happen, almost as if they are just itching to say “I told you so”.
I know it isn’t confined to here or us, but it is disconcerting nonetheless.