To gain real freedom from some of the challenges of the nations, You have to take responsibility of your life and try as much as possible to fix yourself first while expecting the government to fix the nation. If you're not in the position of power, there's literally little you can do about the economic and security situation of the country but unfortunately, going into politics will if care isn't taken daint you and that's the main reason why a lot of people are shying away from it.
The economy is bad and yet, billionaires are coming out of same economy on a daily bases. The government seams to have failed us and yet People are still surviving and doing big things. At the end of the day, we have to accept that it's in your place to make do with the situation in the country what you want to do with it. Face the different problems heads on and discover that everything will with time align well.
I agree with parts of what you are saying, taking personal responsibility is very important no doubt because people who focus on skills, businesses and adapting to the system sometimes still finds a way to survive and still grow despite the economy and that is why we still see successful people around in the country but to say that there’s little one can do or that the environment depends on individual effort is not completely correct reason because the environment we find ourselves really matters a lot in this. In a system with high inflation, unstable policies, poor infrastructure and insecurities up and down, even the most hardworking person will still find it very hard and still struggle. Also the facts that a few people are succeeding doesn’t necessarily mean that the system is working, in many cases those successes comes from connections or operating in sectors that are not even affected or less affected not because the economy is favorable.
So for me I’ll say that yes individually we should take responsibility and adapt but the government also has a major role to create a country where efforts actually pays off because without a working system even if we give all our efforts, we might still struggle.
