Are we all still working class Grinders?

It's interesting that so many of the great thinkers and explorers of classical times were rich - often very rich. No doubt a major reason why people such as Charles Darwin were able to achieve what they did, in their time, was because they were free from that all-consuming preoccupation with making a living.

Another thing that's interesting, was the relationship the regal elite had towards the other class of wealthy people, that they called 'new-money [people]'. The pompous elite were old-money people - their wealth was mostly inherited. As it has been said, old-money people were not typically fond of the new-money people, in an interpersonal sense...

So why did old-money people tend to snub the entrepreneurial new-money people? Apparently, it was because new-money people were still preoccupied with money. That made them boring to the old-money people. The new-money people were probably unrefined to them, as well. New-money people were commercially savvy, but they were still working class as people. They were still all Donald Trumps - not Prince Charles's.

The true elite don't think about money. They just have it. They're past money as a preoccupation and in turn they operate on a "higher" level. It's the working classes who can't get the preoccupation with success out of their minds. And that is the key point.

I look at my society, today, with its obvious capacity to let everyone live the good life, and without the tedious (non-independently directed) education, and without the long working hours, yet we still talk about becoming commercially successful as though it's expected to be part of our religion - or, more specifically, as though commercial success is something we have to so specifically strive for and worry about.

We're still mentally zoned like the old working classes - yet we shouldn't be. There's no need if we organise things properly. Our technology and production infrastructure have come too far. Success should be easy for practically everyone in the industrialised world, today.

Frankly, I think it's a trick. We're tax slaves. And we're driven to work so hard because we're afraid of feeling inadequate if we don't. Look closer and you'll see that we don't aspire so much for success - but the avoidance of shame. That's not freedom. That's your ego-hungry parents stuck in your head.

And alas, the exaggerated concern with success puts our minds on a trivial plane, that ultimately makes us intellectually sterile. Profitable? Sure. But sterile.

I hope one day we can see through the trick and get things in perspective. And collectively focus to improve our systems so to avoid meaningless consumption and stupid inefficiencies. That is, structure our townships in a way that takes full advantage of modern technologies. It's not hard.

Then, we can get over money and success - at last. And free ourselves from that grinding working class mindset to join the pompous old-money elite. Much more relaxing - much more interesting. Success for life - not life for success.