Bad luck can lead to cascading failures in rural life.

Evidence

The world that circumscribed the people I come from had so little margin for error, for bad luck, that when something went wrong, it almost always brought something else down with it. … It was a world in which survival depended on raw courage, a courage born out of desperation and sustained by a lack of alternatives. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 243

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 243
• XREF: connects to: Faulty tools lead to repeated failures in life choices. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300; Small tool failures can cascade into wholesale life questioning. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 237; Failed human-technology relationships produce a mythical, collapse-prone everyday life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 834