I certainly think this exists, on some level. I mean, I've seen firsthand too many examples of these to say that things don't work that way. Social pecking orders do exist. There are people who are good at life - that is, they are good at getting what they want, be it health, wealth, hobbies and activities, socializing, attraction, and so on. And there are people who aren't because they don't understand how it works yet. That's where I'd say I am. I'm trying to figure out the game of how things work, how to get what I want. That's what I think it means to be good at life - to be good at getting what you want. Barring extreme physical or mental conditions, people aren't born either superhuman or completely screwed.
And that's where my opinion differs. I think these categories exist in a way, but it's not so rigid and unbreakable. There is room for mobility, either up or down. I'd say I'm pretty down right now, but there's a nonzero chance I could move up the ladder some way. I'd say I make it harder on myself because I don't just want to make it, I want to make it in a specific way. If I didn't believe in anything and didn't care about being a good person or much of anything except gratification, then I'd do the "bad boy" thing too and become "alpha" because it works. If you are into certain things...cough*bikes, guns, tattoos, booze/drugs*cough you WILL get female attention. The problem is, I don't want to be that. I couldn't live with myself, I would feel like such a lowlife. I'm not interested in those things and I don't want to pretend. I want to make it, and I want to make it as me. Unfortunately, that means I have to do it the hard way.
I think you can become a top-tier person if you get in shape, are smart, have your finances at least in order, and have a lot of interesting things about you, a lot to talk about. It doesn't mean you have to be exactly like those pictures of "alphas". You just have to have yourself together.
