The Rat Race

The biggest myth of the 20th century is that earning money will somehow save the individual from 'fate', allowing them to be the 'masters of their own destiny'. This is a carefully marketed idea that preys on our innate fear of inferiority. Anyone focused on the acquisition of capital as a goal in life is subject to this inferiority complex. It's the nature of entrenched hierarchy for the person with perceived power to dump on the person with less status. Thus capital becomes the means of wreaking status based revenge. Unfortunately submitting to the goal of acquiring capital is tantamount to accepting and proactively creating an inferiority complex for oneself. If you took a random low-income person and a random high-income person and tricked both into thinking they were almost out of money, can you guess who would have the stronger reaction? I'll give you a hint; it's the one whose identity is most tied to the amount of capital they own. In this manner the largest of wars may be perpetrated. By artificially creating a depression those invested in the rat race are collared by the inferiority complex they've struggled so hard to hide beneath the lucrative income. Once the fear becomes the emotive drive for decision making, rationality and logic are secondary to the commands of authority figures.