Reality Check: You make, or don't, make boatloads on money based on your social skills, and your status at birth.

You can literally map zip codes at birth to salary.

Instance doesn't check out.

Reality check: your relation to capital determines how many boat loads of money you make

So you believe we live in a meritocracy? I find that staggering at this point.

The useful skill of being able to sack hundreds of people to make a few dollars for shareholders and still be able to sleep at night.

what illiterate upvoted this grift?

That is definitely not true when everyone seems to have that one horror story where they have an incompetent coworker a level above them.

Or just be born into a rich family. Not sure that counts as a skill really.

Been born into a rich family and then murdering your way to your inheritance without getting caught, now that's a skill.