It's not a sentiment of needing to be uber successful for the sake of being successful. It's the fact that not being highly successful often means you can't aff

It's not a sentiment of needing to be uber successful for the sake of being successful. It's the fact that not being highly successful often means you can't afford even a crappy home in your city, can't have kids, have a hard time justifying the expense of a vacation, can't pay off massive student loans, can't justify the cost to travel to your home town on holidays to see family, likely won't be able to retire early or even "on time", etc etc etc. You need to be making way above average in at least 50% of the country to afford those things (yes, many people that can't afford those things still do them, but it will bite them in the ass later). People like stability. People, on average, have less stability these days. It's super great for exploitation though. Start companies people! Probably no better time, at least outside the tech industry, workers are cheap.