Once you realize the economy is a massive pyramid scheme, do you say there's probably a better way to do it than let the people on top exploit everyone below? Or do you say "Great, I'm the smarter, more successful, and inherently better than every other person in the universe I just haven't realized my full potential yet. The pyramid scheme means inevitably when I rise to the position I deserve I can stomp all over the peasant underclass"?

That's what the quote is about.