Is That All There Is?

"Is That All There Is" makes me think of the top 1/2 of 1% of the filthy rich.  Are they all striving to be THE richest?  Is that the goal they strive for? 

Only ONE can be THAT.  Are the rest disappointed?

At the very end, after the autobiography, after the pronouncement that "love (or family - take your pick) is all there is", does it ever strike them that their life was wasted?  Do they manage to maintain the fiction that THEY were IMPORTANT   --  at least until the very final moment, when their last thought is "Oh SHIT!"?

What ever happened to the concept of being "comfortable"?  That word used by those of a solidly middle, or upper-middle, class status.  That was an achievable goal at one time.  Now, it seems we are supposed to become "winners"  --  all the rest of us are, by definition, "losers". 

Doesn't anyone understand that this set of  (or lack of) values has been imposed as a way of denigrating the middle class?  As a way of making the very concept of "comfortable" somehow the sign of being a "loser".

Why are so many of us so stupid?