This has created a dangerous inflation of self-worth — people believing they've arrived somewhere without ever walking the path. And an entire market of shortcut sellers, fake gurus, comment-section philosophers, and scammy coaches has risen to feed it. They sell "status without substance," and millions have bought in.
Now we can ask: OK, but who are you, really?What have you contributed?What patterns have you seen and helped clarify for others?What have you left behind that someone else can build on?
The idea that people must constantly be "stationed" somewhere, manning something, checking something, doing some redundant task just to stay employed.