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My new year's resolution is to blame individuals even less for what is due to systemic shittiness.

You're going by car or plane rather than by train? Is it because you are an asshole? No, it is because the trip will take you 30 minutes by car and 3 hours by train. And the train ticket is four times the price of an air ticket.

Your lifestyle is unhealthy? Is it because you are a lazy fuck? No, it is because paying your bills requires you to spend most of your time in a workplace that doesn't offer any healthy lunch options and in a job that leaves hardly any time for exercise.

Of course individuals make different choices in the same environment. Some of us are strong (or wealthy or educated) enough to resist even fierce systemic pressure and live healthy and sustainable lives.

But when the system is working against you, you haven't failed if you are unable to resist. And even if you resist, that's a hollow victory with so many others losing.