Be you.

No criminal record.
STEM major, because that seemed like the smart guy thing to do.
Graduated with honors.
Employed at production facility for a few years.
Makes just a couple more dollars per hour than someone who stocks grocery shelves nearby.
Goes home to a one-bedroom apartment in a car with mechanical problems.
Hasn’t been in a relationship in about a decade.
Tired of the same struggle meal that was had a few days in a row.
As far as you can tell, you did everything right.
The people on TV, social media, and in movies tell you that it’s somehow your fault, and that you deserve it, somehow.

Be Homer Simpson in the mid-nineties.

No college education.
Is a lowly nuclear power technician.
Has a wife and three children.
Lives in a house in a nice suburb, even the baby has her own bedroom.
Can afford to go on vacation three times a year.
Can buy new stuff like a grill anytime he wants.
Doesn’t seem to do anything right.
The entire point of his sitcom is that he’s a lower-middle-class loser.

Be some rando Somalian.

No education, period.
Goes to country that’s a better place because it’s not run like the shithole he’s from.
Rape was literally legal in his home country just five years ago.
Contributes literally nothing to society. Average IQ beneath legal threshold for being considered disabled.
Is paid millions of dollars by the government just for repeatedly showing up to an empty building with a misspelled day care sign.
Has a sports car and lives in a large lake front property.
His fraud is exposed, but there are Americans who are actually okay with it, for some reason.

I think it’s time we started having a conversation about what’s wrong with society.