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Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, what was your staring position?

I ask, because even if they never invest a cent in your personal ventures, it is a very significant boost to to have wealthy parents who provide both broad access to formal and informal education, valuable networking, and a dependable safety net. Saying someone with those advantages is "more capable" when comparing them to the average First Worlder (let alone the average human being) is a sort of perceptual bias that seems unfortunately common.

I have no excuses.

or it could mean not leaving your house for weeks at a time. At least when you go to the office you have to leave your home and go to the office and that in theory means time outside.

So, it is better to be forced to go somewhere that they don’t want to go so that they are forced to go outside for a few minutes (or seconds even).

WFH what?

"Work from home"