It's a very dull version of "success" that simply doesn't work for a lot of people.

Maintaining a so-called "comfortable" lifestyle that is quite easily shattered when the "comfortableness" relies on lots of discrimination and loads of self-absorption does not work for everyone, and there's also a fragility aspect to it, because even when things are going well, there's an undercurrent of fear. Surely people are capable of expecting better of themselves and of others.