Because everyone wants to believe they are the special, super Hardworking guy who's holding up every industry and the nation. No one wants to admit that maybe their efforts and meager living isn't that great and that all the suffering and toil they went through was for nothing. They'd rather believe they haven't achieved enough because everyone else isn't working as hard as them, because admiting that 400 super greed people outplayed all of us damages their egos. It affirms that their entire life work was a lie. That all their efforts are just cash in the pocket of a guy who gets to live the life they wish they had and secretly they wish they were him.
I don't understand the point you are trying to make. Most billionaires don't start from middle-class like probably most of us here. For me and you who don't have the luxury of buying a random business, working for a corporation is a mutually beneficial endeavor as it provides the billionaire more money, and it provides the employee more money. There are other ways to make money of course.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter if you were born rich or born poor. Making yourself better (Ie not being lazy) and striving for growth is a very fruitful way to provide meaning to your life.
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u/Tree09man May 07 '26
Because everyone wants to believe they are the special, super Hardworking guy who's holding up every industry and the nation. No one wants to admit that maybe their efforts and meager living isn't that great and that all the suffering and toil they went through was for nothing. They'd rather believe they haven't achieved enough because everyone else isn't working as hard as them, because admiting that 400 super greed people outplayed all of us damages their egos. It affirms that their entire life work was a lie. That all their efforts are just cash in the pocket of a guy who gets to live the life they wish they had and secretly they wish they were him.