disagree. your life is determined by things you cant controll (genetics, family background, coincidence). i bet you are a white, wealthy middle class american. check your privilege.
Only in extreme cases do some people legitimately find themselves and their lives controlled by things they cannot stop. If a person is born astonishingly, horribly poor in one of the most decrepit, poverty-stricken regions of Africa, chances are this person is never going to see anything more than squalor and will live a miserably short life. That sucks. That is also not the case for a majority of the people in the world. We live not only in the Information Age, but in an age where there are global relief efforts and extremely philanthropic governments willing and able to finance people's efforts to a better future to those who exert literally any effort toward it. True, if you live in a third-world country or in an undeveloped region your options are not quite as varied, but most people who have the ambition and drive to make a better life for themselves can if they put even the most modicum of effort in it.
And before you say bullshit on that, my parents are immigrants from the Philippines. Their parents were not very wealthy people, in fact my father's family was pretty poor and my dad often talked about how his childhood fantasies were simply things like owning a Toyota and other shit most people take for granted, and thus they didn't have a huge fortune to their name, and they didn't have a lot of funds coming into the states. However, they came into the country with medical degrees and worked their way into the field here, and now they're accomplished doctors with an extremely comfortable lifestyle. From almost literally nothing. So
fuck you if you say that the only thing people who are born in the dirt can look forward to is more dirt. Shut up, get the fuck over yourself, and do something about it, or shut the fuck up and stop bugging other people with your pity parties.
Fuck, the fact alone that you're able to respond to us means that you at least have a device capable of communicating to the Internet and a method by which to connect to the Internet, so you're certainly not poor by any means.
Also, while I've basically gone on my own tirades in the Brianna Wu topic about how privilege is the biggest load of fucking horseshit the Internet has ever come up with, I feel this is worth mentioning:
Dude, you were born in an age with the Internet, medical knowledge of germs, and the near abolishment of marauding hordes of people who want to pillage, kill, and rape anything in their way. If your pussy ass was born about 1,000 years earlier your guts would be decorating the shiny end of some bandit's greatsword if you weren't already shitting out your large intestine from some easily curable ailment today, so how about you check
your fucking privilege?