Purely here to point out that you stole this word for word from a tweet.

I wasn't aware, because I'm not on Twitter/X, but yep: https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918

Correct, it's a meme.

> leftist discourse

You jump to political labels awfully fast, based on a mere two sentences.

> pretending not to understand things

I'm not pretending anything. I also don't think I'm misunderstanding here.

> thus making discourse impossible.

You replied to me, so apparently discourse is possible.

Let me add to the discourse: I think our fundamental difference is that you view massive wealth accumulation as success, whereas I view it as failure.

It's reasonable for any person to want material goods, e.g., food, clothing, shelter, even entertainment, as well as some measure of security. However, at some point, a normal person is satisfied with their personal wealth. If you're never satisfied, always need more, more, more without limit, that's a psychological problem, and possibly a social problem too.

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."

You have a strong emotional connection to the idea that rich people are rich because they're strong and wise. All the arguments you're making in this thread are post hoc justifications for this belief, which simply isn't supported by reality.

Some of them are wealthy because they are the best at playing the wealth game (and got lucky along the way).

Why does everyone care about Cristiano Ronaldo? Being the best at kicking a ball is the stupidest skill there is (IMHO).

at least becoming wealthy is a game that correlates with skills I care about.

I hate to break it to you, but Cristiano Ronaldo is a billionaire.