No, because it’s not a competition. There is more than enough to go around, except for the people at the top rationing it out and keeping 99.999999% of it for themselves. That’s why it’s a hard world.

Being selfish is not the solution, emulating the people who are being successful by being selfish is not the answer. Stop fighting over the crumbs the successful leave for us after they’ve eaten all the pie and thinking you will eventually collect a whole pie if you are just selfish enough. It’s a myth, it’s not realistic. They didn’t put their pies together out of crumbs. They baked it the oven they made us build for them.

Don’t fight against your fellow crumb-gatherers. We live in one of the wealthiest and most prosperous times that humanity has ever existed in. We simply need to start acting like it. If austerity were actually necessary, we certainly wouldn’t be able to afford having billionaires and trillionaires either. It’s a lie, and people are getting insanely rich because people keep believing it.