I don't understand you talking about genetic lotteries and then using the phrase "if you have the intelligence to program".
I grew up outside of the US and I wouldn't trade that for being an average American kid at all. Being an average American kid, from what I've seen, is a lot worse than growing up in many other countries, even if overall conditions are better. There seems to be a stronger trend of immigrants making it in the US than Americans themselves making it in the US.
> I had to move back in with my parents multiple times through my twenties.
A lot of Americans have a social policy of not allowing their child to live with them past the age of 18...
Americans also assume they need to college, you skipped that entire bag of worms.
Immigrants often have advantages they don't appreciate, such as being able to see the system from the outside and simply solve it, especially given that immigrants are unusual people in general, while Americans look at the system from the inside and are molded by it, and look at it as reality itself. There are plenty of people like that in the country one immigrates from, too, but those are not the immigrants.
I grew up outside of the US and I wouldn't trade that for being an average American kid at all. Being an average American kid, from what I've seen, is a lot worse than growing up in many other countries, even if overall conditions are better. There seems to be a stronger trend of immigrants making it in the US than Americans themselves making it in the US.
> I had to move back in with my parents multiple times through my twenties.
A lot of Americans have a social policy of not allowing their child to live with them past the age of 18...
Americans also assume they need to college, you skipped that entire bag of worms.
Immigrants often have advantages they don't appreciate, such as being able to see the system from the outside and simply solve it, especially given that immigrants are unusual people in general, while Americans look at the system from the inside and are molded by it, and look at it as reality itself. There are plenty of people like that in the country one immigrates from, too, but those are not the immigrants.