Ordinary people only pay for two things: necessities and status. This is shaped by their income structure.
A business that can't monetize free-riders won't survive, and one that relies solely on paying customers will never grow up.
A person's mindset can affect your win rate.
Strive? Because the distance between the end and the start is enough to see and reach. Lie flat? Because it's far enough to see but impossible to reach.
If it's possible, it's worth calculating for. Possibility exists precisely for that one-in-a-million chance.
When your actions affect the health of the market, your repeated insistence on markets' naturally emergent rules is hollow.
You lever up to accumulate a massive portfolio of properties, and then they ban you from selling. What's the point? It's designed to force a margin call on you.