Philosophy.
Value.
Value is scarcity. It's blood, sweat, and tears. It's effort, vision, and sacrifice. It's time.
Success = 1/10 inspiration and 9/10 perspiration.
Goal setting, action plans, determination, and application.
Punctuality, diligence, perseverance, time management, and commitment.
Practice, trial and error, innovation, conditioning, stamina, agility, strength, grit, recovery, and dexterity.
Achievement rewards you with nice things. Comfort, beauty, security, peace. Proud, confident, humble, wise. You can enjoy satisfaction and esteem. You are organically happier and generally great to be around. You have more time to do other things you love and have a passion for. You can now branch out and grow. You can spend time on the lesser priorities… the passions put on ice… the talents that had to take a back seat, and it's all based on the rock solid foundation of merit.
So what happens when scarcity or the 'energy' required to manifest diminishes? Can merit ever be invaluable?
The 'exclusivity' may be lost, stolen, or given away. Well, it loses value. The desire dies, and successful people start to look elsewhere.
Why would you put so much effort into, and sacrifice so much for, a result that has little value?
The radical left is a particularly good case study of these concepts. The Marxist ideology believes in equal outcomes, regardless of people being intrinsically unequal. We have talents, IQs, physical attributes that make us unique, and specialists in our own right in the correct field. A 5 foot person is very unlikely to be a successful professional NBA player.
We have laws and humane codes that state that all men are created equal, and we are all entitled to fundamental human rights. So true, but what you do with it is up to you. I cannot expect the same outcomes as an Olympian if I don't train, so I logically cannot expect, nor be disappointed in not receiving, a gold medal.
If you were to just give out gold medals, an elite athlete wouldn't want to train anymore, and the chances are, the whingers' gold medal would be a paperweight at best. It lost it's value. It is a huge disservice to humanity and evolution. Massive.
Circles and cycles.
If the average envious, resentful, jealous underachiever demands a 5 star hotel, the 'prestige', 'charm', and 'allure' will soon wane, because everything has lost value. You will eventually have a chain of empty 5 star hotels, because there is no one interesting there.There will be little innovation and intelligent conversation in the hotels, because it's now on the beach. But of course… with all the fun, success, and excitement… now on the beach, that will become the next target for the underachiever, who wants to waltz in for a piece of the action. Come stink up my fire twirling on the beach, forcing me again to go somewhere else, and find something else to do, and eventually the beach is deserted, because you never liked fire twirling anyway. You just wanted the perks.
Socialism sux.