That's part of what I mean - I think a lot of it is just basic humanity, we want simplifications and dualities, we want happy endings, we're used to thinking of success as something that plays out financially. But reality is way more diverse and I feel we keep acting as though all cancer survivors are the same cancer survivor (which I think is a good example because that's physiologically as well as emotionally impossible).

I mean, applying the whole through willpower you'll be able to push through all barriers and become a huge success trope is cruel even if you're doing it on, I dunno, let's say upper middle class white kids. It's only going to get crueler from there.