I know the poster probably doesn't recognize this, and by no means am I saying this stuff isn't common in SF, but posts like these come off as incredibly gauche and tone-deaf. Our new American industrialists and technological leaders need to stop worshiping the superficial hierarchy of "success prestige" that they themselves have created within higher ed since the 2000s, and recognize that worshiping money is not cool or ironically cool. What has always confused about the strivers is that they believe "grinding" or "working hard" is good in and of itself. What they fail to recognize is that simply "grinding" without any purpose makes you beholden to whoever profits from it. I want these strivers to think harder about why they are in the jobs they are in, why they work for the people they do, and, eventually, what purpose their grind really serves. Grinding it not a virtue. A virtue takes a positive position, by which I mean a declarative one. imo this country needs a counter-elite of young American industrial and technological leaders who direct their grind, above all else, toward the prosperity of the nation, and by that I mean its people and their collective economic and national self-interest. Unless our smart young people find it within themselves to grow up a little, they will continue to work hard for some vague notion of personal or societal prestige that forever leaves them empty.