Not everyone is creative enough or has the resources to start his/her own business. Those people are stuck working for someone else all their life. Maybe they like their jobs, maybe not. Maybe they wonder if they have adequate education to find another job if they are fired or layed off. Perhaps they will be paid enough to live well, perhaps not.

Once a company starts selling stock "ownership" takes on new meaning. The board members may or may not know everything about the products they sell. Then there are holding companies, they just buy and sell other companies, merge them, split them, or shuffle them. If you don't work for one of those, then nepotism will likely stand in your way of success.

Professions are compartmentalized. So is education. One's success is tied directly to a specific product. Cross-over between professions is blocked by diversion of your resume by people trained to direct your skills into the area in which you are trained. People in other areas never see your resume. Unemployment in your profession soars, while it remains low elsewhere.

Office workers never see the production area, and likewise. Each area has it's own separate hierarchy, cross-over is impossible even if a worker gets a promotion. Laborers and managers of laborers are segregated from the people who tell them what to do, and who sign their paycheques. People never see their boss anymore, and likewise. Labor becomes a liability, a cost statistic on financial controllers balance sheets.

Suddenly nobody really knows how the company got started. The product is too complex. You've got to have a degree to understand some small part of it. Small operators are forced out of business by allocation of costs geographically and undercutting their prices locally. Those people have to find jobs at the big companies. Only when a big company goes bankrupt is there room for smaller operators.

There are a million interconnected micro-processes to economics. I could rattle on, but why bother. The fundamental is the individual, and maybe the individual doesn't like his situation right now. Maybe it seems imbalanced. Maybe he thinks he's at a disadvantage, or has no opportunity relative to others. Does the individual have to bear the burden totally? In a capitalist system, YES !!!