Hear me out, please. I think it's an easy answer to say that rich people extoll how good it is to work/how much they themselves love working because they want us to work harder, but I wonder if that's not the whole truth. Surely to an extent that is part of it, but I saw a post from Elon - notable capital boy and emerald mine denier - criticizing Zuck - notable creepy space robot in human skin - for not working as hard as him, with Elon saying he enjoys working.

Got me thinking.

Does he really think he works hard? I think he actually might. Its a known phenomenon that no matter what starting bonuses people had, they will like, 8/10 times still attribute their success to hard work and, importantly, they'll believe it. So does Elon truly believe he works?

I think yes, but he is deluded as to what actual work entails. He travels and spitballs ideas and tells others what to do while his pampered ass sits on X all day. But it takes all day, and I think he thinks that's work. So sure he knows that those under him work harder, but he thinks he works hard, so an unrealistic standard has been set. After all, if that's hard work, then other people doing harder work probably don't (in his mind) have it as hard as they actually do.

Part of the support for capitalism from the wealthy isnt just that they know it works for them, in my new opinion, but it moreso stems from their delusional concept that they worked hard to make it work for them, so you can too if you weren't "lazy" like they are. It's this delusional idea that what they started with doesn't matter nearly as much as the "work" they put into it (and again, theit concept of work is radically different than most people's).

Because if you look at it through that lense, it suddenly becomes easier to excuse the suffering around you as being the victim's fault. I mean, you wouldn't even see yourself as the perpetrator. You'd just be anothet player, only you played better.

This is of course delusional.

But I wonder if it explains, at least in part, why they support capitalism as fervently and idealistically as they do. Rich people and their supporters, who probably have all bought into the lie that those who make it big did so on the basis of their hard, again, "work" - meaning anyone can.

Sorry if this has been talked about before here. Would love to know your thoughts tho!