Capitalism is so absurd that its proponents respond to questions of *systemic* problems by babbling about what people can do *as individuals*. Jobs don't pay enough? Get a better job. It's like addressing the problem of a skyscraper being on fire by saying "Try not to get burnt."
It's like if there was a locked room full of ten prisoners and you only gave them enough food to keep seven alive, and you responded to their complaints by saying "Make sure you grab the food first when I throw it in your cell then."
It's a belief system you can only hold in place with psychological compartmentalization. Tell that one suffering guy to get a better job and save his money, and then simply do not think about the millions of people who are working low-paying jobs and unable to save any money.
Any competition-based system will necessarily have losers as well as winners in those competitions. Saying "Compete better than those you're competing against" does nothing for the part of the population who must necessarily lose. A collaboration-based system is what's needed.
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