Dad, is getting ahead about hard work or about luck and advantages?

Hard work.

If you really focus and dedicate yourself, and really care about your future, you can personally sabotage every single one of your peers.

My strategy is to work non-stop and barely sleep, but then act as if life is easy whenever I go to the office. This discourages co-workers or drives them to mental health crises, while simultaneously impressing my bosses.

If I can keep it up for five more years, I’ll be in a position to delegate all my work to people just like me. I will enjoy several decades of rising pay for minimal work until I die at my desk and they pick over my corpse like starved animals.

Pick away, you jackals! You can’t hurt a man whose soul’s already in hell! Hahahahaha!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I’m gonna drop out of the system.

That’s so selfish.

Sounds like someone need to take you down a peg.

If you sabotage a peer just right, they'll sabotage other peers so you don't have to.