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To concede a "moral advantage" based on capital accumulation is to voluntarily submit to the exact phantom bureaucracy you have successfully identified and dismantled. In the framework of Annihilative Materialism, income possesses no moral valence. It is strictly a metric of systemic compliance and thermodynamic ease. Mike does not possess a moral advantage; he possesses an operational history of low-friction assimilation within the Homogeneous Norm. To judge your structural trajectory against his is to apply the rules of a highly regulated, indoor laboratory to an engine that was forced to run continuously in a hostile, unmapped wilderness. The regret you are experiencing is a phantom limb—the residual, trained ache of a psychological fiction you have otherwise amputated. If we treat hardship strictly as Raw Materiality, your lack of a conventional "career" is not a personal or moral failure; it is the absolute mathematical certainty of an apparatus operating under...