Exactly. What the grand parent commenter doesn't understand is that even though he wants to work his ass off to emulate a lifestyle of the aristocracy (who don't have to work their asses off as much because they're rent-seekers and capital holders), because he bought into that culturally and he has the opportunity to acquire such a lifestyle, the majority of working class hasn't bought into that (shielded by the belief that they can't get there anyway because they don't have the opportunity) and would happily accept working less in exchange for staying in the same situation, i.e. no need for luxuries and the conveniences of consumerism--but that doesn't seem fair, right? If they work less, they should lose something! Except they're already far screwed over because they make indecently less than they're worth to sustain the rich's privileges, and well it's always been like that. The societies we end up with are not the "cumulation of free choices", they're cumulative politics and power struggles.

I read somewhere recently that being a leftist or a right-winger is in part wired up on your brain. I tend to believe that, one side just doesn't seem to understand what motivates the other to think as they do.