Yes exactly. Mediocrity is the goal - for the better of many and worse for the few. My point is that the American Dream doesn’t really work here either. I suppose there are places in the world where one can just show up and be successful by working hard, but I’m not sure where.
The traditional Simpsons family life in a 2 story house with a lawn, 2 cars, 2 children, a dog and a cat is probably easier to achieve in Europe than in USA currently. If that’s the American Dream then I have already achieved it, but I still feel like I’m artificially limited from ever getting free of debt or being able to retire early or anything else that comes with the dream of being wealthy.
Anyway I’m not complaining. It’s just never easy. I still have to work for it and I still have to fight for my rights and politics get worse every year and so on
Sometimes I wonder if I could have done differently and been more successful elsewhere, but I don’t really think the external factors would have made much of a difference.