Your skills and ability mean nothing in this type economy. You could have idiots that look smart and successful, and at the same time, have very smart and innovative people looking dumb and failing. Â Equality and diversity is good. The idiots have a chance for success. And smart people are humbled. You could say its sort of an affirmative action economy too.
The “system” seems to love borrowers, spenders, auto mechanics, and real estate sales and rental occupations, but it hates US savers and US producers of pretty much anything.