Structural Optionality Is a Skill, Not a Country.

If you’re truly high capability, you quickly realize you don’t want to build anything in the Temu/Shein tier.

Then you notice who those environments attract — people you can’t learn from, and work that doesn’t transfer into anything durable.

Once you factor in how crony capitalism shows up even in the pettiest arenas, the decision becomes obvious:

You move your capability to whatever counts as hardcore mode — the highest-consequence lane, where the standards are real and the outcomes can’t be faked.

And from there, you don’t “compete.”

You beat the game.