Derek has low self esteem (and probably rightly so, as he has no essential value to society).
noone does. We re all replaceable, whatever our contribution to society lol. It s having people under your control that gives you power, when they need you more than you need them. As long as you can keep your place...
I know surgeons, dentists, who hate people, yet treat them daily and save their lives. Still, they hate them. They wouldnt give them the time of the day out of their workplace, and you re just meat to them, meat that allow them to earn tons of money, and they joke together about them when they re not in front of them anymore. Again life is more complicated than that. If you knew the number of people who want to kill everyone, but keep calm all day long and do their job, get back home with family, and are content with it as long as it works. Most have a scapegoat tho, someone they can release their frustration on without anyone being able to do anything about it. Some find other ways to release their stress; hobbies, teaching stuff to others, their kids, hoping they ll get their revenge against life thru them. We re animals who pretend they arent. Call it schizophrenia or whatever, but we re all dual, because everything in life dual, binary, gray, not black or white. somehow black and white are extremes.
Some people are stronger, have been conditioned, engeenered to dominate , be happy, very soon in powerful families, than others. They re born and engeenered winners, alphas. Confidence is built, it doesnt come out of nowhere. It is also rare , the reason why everyone envy them; alphas are a few, betas are many, just like in any animal specie, animal group. And some people are engeneered to fail and suffer just the same way, it is a fact, life is completely unfair. And those who have the best of it, dont care about those who dont, and those who dont wish and do their best to get at the place of the luckiest ones at all costs. Some decide to not play the game and just be content with what they have. Some completely refuse to play the game. We all find a way to evacuate or anger, libido, energy, we all build a meaning to our existences. And they re all bullshits, as the only meaning of life is that every single life form has nothing else to do but kill instead of being killed.