Morality implies inefficiency.
Some amount of arbitrary rules are required to hold civilisation together.
But this balance is delicate, and our perception of morality is necessarily flawed.
So inevitably, we end up with corrupt, metastatic status games that are rigged in favour of their creators.
How to get around this?
Prioritisation.
Just like we place the moral above the material, we can place the material above status games.
Rather than rejecting the rules outright, we can accept them on our own terms.
This lets us sift through needless complexity, no matter how much is put in our way.
And in so doing, it lets us earn our seat at the table.