The most useful reading of the quote doesn’t pretend everyone has equal freedom or resources. Some people face constraints that are immediate and real: caregiving duties, illness, discrimination, debt, legal restrictions. Yet even within constraints, there are often small choices about what you reinforce, what you postpone, and what you begin preparing to change.
So the line becomes less of a moral judgment and more of a diagnostic tool. It asks: within your current limits, what are you still tolerating that you could renegotiate, name aloud, or plan to exit? [...]
