Why do ordinary people always wake up too late?

It's simple:
Your information sources are delayed.

You think you're "understanding society,"
but what you're watching
are just promotional videos of rules.

What the school teaches you
is "hard work pays off";
what the media tells you
is "success is replicable";
the short videos feed you
are "templates for ordinary people to reverse the trend."

It sounds inspiring,
but they all have one thing in common:
They're all after-the-fact summaries,
none of them show real gameplay.

Where is the real game?
At the financing table,
in the allocation plans,
during resource exchanges,
in the private negotiations you can't see.

And what about ordinary people?
They're only allowed to see the results,
not the process.

Until you finally realize:
Hard work ≠ sitting at the table,
Following rules ≠ dividing the cake,
Energy ≠ power,
and you're already over thirty.

It's not that you're stupid,
it's that you're simply not allowed to know in advance.

You've been locked inside the "rulebook,"
thinking that's the world;
but those who truly make money, set prices, and stratify,
have been trial and error in the real game from the start.

So awakening is always late,
and often very painful:
Unemployment, debt, betrayal, elimination,
you have to take a hit,
only then will you realize
that promotional videos and the real story

are not part of the same movie.

Remember one thing:
Ordinary people don't lose because of effort,
they lose because they've never seen the actual gameplay.

The moment you start engaging with real players,
real ledgers,
and real conflicts of interest,
you truly step into the game.

Until then,
you're just an audience.