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Yes. The other thing these individuals don’t realize is that my idea of success also affects them. If I don’t think buying a big house is my idea of success, and if a lot of us think the same thing, then their big house that they bought is suddenly not worth anything and suddenly they are no longer a success and they have a house that’s underwater.

Yes, everything is interdependent, and the myth of the separate individual is only a capitalist materialistic concept used to pit us against each other.

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It's not a capitalistic concept. People in the DDR (among other communist states) used to rat each other out with the consequence of the target losing their home or possible incarceration so that the stoolie could "inherit" this desired asset. They still had the concept of some being more equal than others and deserving more.

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That's just supply and demand. It applies to virtually every good in a capitalist society regardless of the pursuit of success or wealth. Supply and demand is intrinsic to capitalism.