Capitalists are best at creating the illusion of supply and demand imbalance and congestion to slack off and produce less while gaining high profits. If you are the proletariat or petty bourgeoisie, by the time you realize it, it's usually already in the mid to late stage. You still join in the FOMO frenzy, desperately FOMO, originally hoping to leap up the social hierarchy, but one failed investment can cause you to fall down.