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Jokes aside, I think there's a subtle cause and effect mixup.
If you "have it easy" you develop confidence, and that both emerges thanks to privilege but also is an actual advantage granted by privilege.
You do find more success if you don't hesitate too much, but you will always hesitate more if you have no safety net.
It's the fallacy of "I made all my own success." I hear this all the time from well-off people who come from well-off families. They very well may have created everything they have, but they are also completely ignorant of the opportunities created for them simply by being raised in a well-off family. There is zero concept of choosing between dental health or eating, car repair or heating, etc.
I think what also falls on deaf ears is that even if those people don’t “make their own success” that they’d like to loudly proclaim, chances are that there are near-guaranteed positions that they can fall back into or family and friends they can go live with while they plot for their next endeavour.