Working is symmetric return, because the duration of your work is in linear proportion to your salary.

Trading, on the other hand, is asymmetric return. Trading for 12 hours could result in a loss, or it could earn you the equivalent of a year’s salary from working.

Everyone should have a form of symmetric return as basic income while continuously seeking various opportunities for asymmetric returns.

Wealth freedom occurs when asymmetric returns are sufficiently large, satisfying the threshold where zero-risk returns exceed symmetric returns, thus achieving the ability to meet all needs without working.

The personal wealth accumulation system in modern society is always designed so that 99% of people cannot cross this threshold solely relying on symmetric returns...

Otherwise, no one would be working in this society...

Therefore, relying on asymmetric returns to achieve wealth freedom will be very difficult, because essentially you are distancing yourself from the original group and becoming one of the few who are served.

So, based on this, what do you think is the significance of social emotions like consumerism and vanity comparison?

That's right, it is to increase the difficulty of conversion between social classes...