Increasingly I feel like I'm living in an Ayn Rand novel. Competence is punished or at the very least treated the same as incompetence. No individual responsibility anywhere and it is increasingly the duty of the collective to provide for those who "just can't." I'm not talking about the broader and more obvious social welfare example, but even in a building full of engineers in a conservative company, the woke policies increasingly exist.
If a person wanted to just turn their world on its head, quit everything, cut all ties, and start over somewhere, is there a "land of opportunity" left anywhere in the world?
I suppose in some ways the world is what you make of it, but it's also tough to win a rigged game.
Are there any states in the US that remain as the lasting bastion of core American values such as hard work = reward, non-woke, earn it-keep it ideaologies?