Access to education, to property, to healthcare, to cultural goods, to networks, to efficient infrastructure, generational wealth, ability to do unpaid internships, to travel, etc...would disagree with that statement. Obviously personal choices play a huge part, but not everyone has access to the same choices to begin with. But indeed, the right-wing way of thinking is that society doesn't exist and that every poor person, person in jail, sick, undereducated, etc...is in that position by their own fault. Very useful to brush away structural racism, for example, and to avoid adressing inequalities.
