It's a compelling motivation for a villain, especially one where you're trying to make a conflicted, flawed type who has a legitimate grievance with the world.
As for real life itself, I find complaining about the evils of free will uncompelling. Humans have been given all the tools they need to do good and some choose not to. It's also not a level playing field, Evil has been given a significant advantage.
New American Standard Bible
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
One reason I don't worry excessively about who's in charge of which country or how politics play out is because the same guy's ultimately in charge of all of them. Satan is literally stated to control the entire world, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to offer rulership of every kingdom on the planet to Jesus as a bribe. Looking at history and alternate history really helped me understand that; no matter if it was a Monarchy, Communist, or Democratic Russia always has the same brutal attitude towards its own people, a desire to minutely control any religion, and is even worse to outsiders, as if the same actual person remained in charge regardless of the flag and the legal fiction of a different code of laws. The whole "New Russia is the USSR in Drag" is a very old joke but amazingly apt. Similarly, the United States was described in significant detail in the bible and it cannot get away from those flaws regardless of which party is in charge or which President it elects. Italy remains amazingly unstable and has a new government meltdown regularly no matter what government they use. The same strategies are apparent even though the figurehead changes, for hundreds of years at a time. And outside politics, they say War never changes but neither does Business, the super-rich always wind up going the same way and becoming part of the same machine. The moral failings of the entertainment industry are well documented and it seems that refusing to be a part of those moral failings means refusing to be part of the industry.
It thus falls to the individual to choose good because big institutions are inherently corrupt and cannot escape it. But once you get away from Big Business, Big Government, Big Drugs, Big
everything, you find astounding acts of heroism, kindness, care, and love among individual humans. Humanity's leadership is, temporarily, always Chaotic Evil. But once you look at the people rather than the leaders it's easy to see humans have a lot of innate good to them.
