It definitely differs by field. But if you had to characterize the contemporary labor economy as like a 1950s factory, where any reasonably healthy pair of hands could learn to do the job vs backbiting for promotions at Google, I think you'd choose the latter. 1/

And it's the most remunerative sectors that are heterogenous, so even workers outside of those sectors would like, if they could, to enter them and contest, and feel psychologically like losers if they can't. /fin