Capital driven economies and politics driven economies put pressure on me to care about what other people think about me, or I would be punished with resource deprivation. But Oscar Wilde says
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” like he did a census on everyone who did and did not exist.
The incumbency uses this platitude to cover for the real reason, which is so they can deprive people who are not the right fit of resources, and that is harder to do if there are impostors among us. What are people who are not the right fit anywhere like me supposed to do?