Many people in this capitalist system exist under the delusion that hard work is rewarded, instead of the fact that what is rewarded is being a capitalist leech, owning property, and leveraging your skillset in the most unethical ways (i.e. landlordism, petit bougism, being a plastic surgeon or scumbag lawyer etc). Normal people cannot grasp this concept that same way someone can't grasp an eldritch truth in a Lovecraft setting, because once you internalize it you realize we live within one of the shittiest forms of society being run by cocaine fiends and dudes that just want stonk numbers to go up and would step on your neck for it.