[willcipriano]

Listen to people in prison, all of them innocent.

Listen to men who beat their wives, all of them had it coming.

People say what they think you want to hear. Don't take it at face value.

Specifically for this case: Whenever someone tells you how many jobs they work vs how many hours it's because it isn't that many hours.

[netsharc]

To reply to your last line: if you believe that "just work hard and you'll be successful", then you have to believe that the opposite is true, "if you are not successful, that must be because you're lazy".

Someone else said, "if hard work correlates to success, there'd be many millionaire African women.". But many successful people discount that they've had luck, e.g. the luck of being born in a rich country/to rich parents.