You have to remember that collectivism is a means to an end. If you look at the ancient world the 1 percenters had it made compared to the other 99%. Today’s 1 percenters wax nostaglic for those good old days and are doing everything they can to re-impose it!
Most of the fools don’t understand, that they are the very types that would not survive such a society.
There is no way a celebrity/actress would be making as much as they do and there is no way that in the past, a celebrity would be able to consult a head of state publicly.
Look at China; their elite are the business tycoons, the scientists, the engineers, the computer programmers, and such, while entertainers are reportedly used as playthings (in the literal sense) and more patronized than well regarded.
You don’t hear celebrates mouthing off about the Chinese government and trying to tell the President how to run the country. They would get shot, which I think is a nice approach.
In the US, we need to drill it into the heads of the young that luck is a part of success, but not the bulk of it. Luck is only a minor part, the rest is inspiration and legwork. Very little is luck and hype.