Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

You see, it's the perfect world for the top aristocracies. They have a world in which

- it's harder and harder to the lower echelons to climb up the pole;

- it's a lot easy to fall down the pole due to a number of reasons that ordinary people don't have control in (Financial crisis, terminal illness, etc.)

- For the top dogs, they actually gain from some of the reasons listed above. Guess who gained a lot from the financial crisis and where did all those huge medical bills go?

The result:

- Top aristocracies are the safest guys

- Everyone below (including the small aristocratics) is subject to huge risks of falling down, and the lower you are, the more risk you bear. Of course, unless when you are already at the bottom.

- So everyone has to work super hard, not to climb up, but NOT to drop down.

Fast forward... I own a house in a rural area and have a family. I'll likely never have that cabin in the mountains, and I'll never be free of having to support my family. That's my fault though..I took the path of least resistance and ended up where I'm at - I didn't take the path towards what I dreamed about having as a kid.

I suspect that the answer to these types of questions is that most people don't want to admit how mind-fucked we all are in to believing the bullshit that we are inundated with from the most powerful classes and how little freedom and financial mobility exists in the USA.

I'd argue that's because we have a ton of junk food availability.

If I wanted to eat a roast and veggies from a local farm not covered in glyphosate, I'm going to pay for it.

Doritos and Cheerios are cheap af. But they're killing people.

We are arguably post scarcity of low quality corn and wheat, but what good is that? And that only comes because of subsidies.

Nothing. The reality of cutting hair curtails the first mans ability to be a billionaire and the needs of the tiny humans out way the desire of their watchers to maximize their income (which would still be far below billionaire status because the ability to watch a kid is limited by nature as well).

Capture the signup cost of a new onboard to your software? Capture the profit of selling toilet paper to the west coast? Grab a percentage of sales from everyone sales man hired after you?

Those things can scale by their nature and so the people in control of them will scale their capital accordingly.

I would argue the very existence of the tech giants prices there is no malicious entity out there holding down the little people. Just the facts of life. There are only so many scaling jobs (millions of singers, only a few hundred like Beyoncee) and competing against an entrenched interest means you bear the full cost of switching me from my chic fil a tea addiction to your bucket-o-chicken branded one. Good luck with that, I’m headed to chic fil a right now because just thinking about it was enough to remind me of all the good memories and want another one right now. It’s not the tea, I’ll drive past 20 people selling sweet tea to get there, it’s the chic fil a sweet tea.