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CMV: Pulling yourself up by your boot straps is survivor bias

A common argument I've seen against issues is the "I did it and if I can do it,  everyone can do it". This is commonly applied to groups of individuals within a wider system such as immigration, minimum wage or achieving educational success. 

To be more specific, you will only hold this view if you have already achieved success. For example, if you tried to get a higher paying job but after 10/20/30 yrs of truly trying and you have not achieved any form of success, you cannot believe that you just need to try harder. To highlight, I believe you can have this view regarding immigration if you have never tried the immigration process.

How can you change my view? Provide an example of how to believe in "I didn't achieve success despite trying, however everyone can if they just tried harder". 

Alternatively, explain how pulling yourself up by your boot straps isn't just survivor bias. 

General thoughts;

- No delta for getting me on an incorrect definition of the above. You will get an upvote if I you identify a better term for my view. 

- Delta if you can show a logical viewpoint. No points for, "people are crazy and truely believe".

- A delta if you identify that survivor bias is the wrong fallacy. 

- A delta for the first person to inform me of the fallacy where you believe you are an average person and are a perfect representative of a greater population. Upvotes for every person after.
gpt
How could someone *truly try* to achieve a higher paying job over the course of 10-30yrs, and not succeed, even marginally, if they were actively pursuing things to help them in that process?

In that case, I’d say their lack of success would be largely driven by *trying* in the wrong ways or being inflexible (not willing to move) or unwilling to take risks that could lead to success.