Morgan Housel

That's Master P, he's not a peer.

That's Shaq, I'm not supposed to be like him.

And so you could watch that and you're like, wow, that's cool, but I know I'm not supposed to have that.

But now with social media, you are drowning in a feed of people who you think should be peers.

And so you scroll through and you're like, they're all prettier than me.

They're all happier than me.

They're all richer than me.

They're all having more fun than I am.

And these are supposed to be peers.

And then you immediately, no matter how well you're doing, even if like objectively you're doing pretty well, it's so easy to feel like you're falling behind by comparison.

The Discovery Channel shows on the hunter prey things.

There's inequality in nature.

The other thing is a lot of that inequality of talent is cultural.

And

China's better at manufacturing simple items than Americans are.

They just are.

They're better at it.

They're much more efficient at it.

They're much more culturally adept at doing it.

America's much better at technology and entrepreneurism than China is.