Human nature tends toward becoming a scapegoat.

People, at their core, still want to get a good outcome—say, a result that doesn’t truly belong to them—without changing themselves.

Just like a woman who wants to marry a wealthy man, but not at the cost of wearing a mask, losing all her emotions, forever putting on a gentle smile and endlessly providing emotional value. What does she really want? To become the wealthy man’s queen. You give me money, and you’ll also subsidize my emotional needs.

Just like a guy who wants to make money the way a businessperson does. But instead of bowing to the market, trying to figure out what it wants, he’d rather do the opposite—he wants to be like the overpowered protagonist in a power-fantasy novel, forcing the market to bow to him. He wants to stand tall and still make money.