You're simply wrong. You can certainly never work well outside the top 1%. Hell, you can live on social services while near the bottom if you really want. But I

You're simply wrong. You can certainly never work well outside the top 1%. Hell, you can live on social services while near the bottom if you really want. But I know many upper class people who don't work or barely work. It's not a fantasy, it's reality. It's not about keeping anyone down, that's a strawman and not even close to something I said. It's just the economic reality; when all you need to pay for are property taxes, utilities, and food, that's covered very easily by income earned from even modest amounts of wealth. This is a flaw in our economic system. As for the other class of people, there simply aren't many avenues for those people. I've watched many 20 somethings and 30 somethings struggle. A small number become programmers, a small number become strippers, and the rest tend to work long hours for little pay even with great educations, let alone without those educations.