The bottom half has been typically screwed by the middle class. That's the entire story of Rome. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is much easier for a criminal to fake being an honest person than for an honest person to fake being a criminal. Likewise it is easier for a fat-tailed distribution to fake being thin tailed than for a thin-tailed distributions to fake being fat tailed.

Envy, like thirst for revenge, is the wicked person's version of our natural sense of injustice.

Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people.