This is a great excuse.
I've used it myself for many years. It excuses me from having a go, even from trying. It excuses my previous lack of effort and fits me into a mindset that says nothing is ever going to get better. It's alright for them... but it's bloody hard work for me - too hard to even bother...
It riles me when I hear it used against me.
It's alright for you, you've got 2500 SP
It's alright for you, you've been on this platform for more than a year
It's alright for you, you've got a big network
It's alright for you, you live in the UK, a rich country
It's alright for you, you had a good job with a pension
It's alright for you, you own your own house
It's alright for you, you're married
(I also got "you're not married" when I wasn't married!)
It's alright for you, you've got a degree
It's alright for you, you don't live with your parents... etc.
Over the years I've heard all of these from people who didn't have these things. Now I want to be clear - "You spot it, you got it". I know that these particularly upset me because they're excuses I like to use myself, even if they're only in my head. Some of them took some significant, hard work, some of them really did just drop into my lap, that's life. I guess I want less to admonish those who might have said (or be saying right now!) "It's all right for you, Lloyd" and instead look harder at to whom I'm applying this thinking myself and what the envy that's implicit in there is telling me about what I want.
I'm definitely in the "It's alright for those who have more than 100,000SP" or those who mined Bitcoin on their CPU (and kept their private keys safe). But I should dig a bit deeper and be aware of where it sneaks in in other places. What is stopping me be like people I admire, because I think what they're doing is somehow easy or unobtainable to me?