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This is a decidedly middle-class conceit – working-class people don’t agonise over wanting a better life. They are unlikely to say: “Life is not a competition” as one bourgeois Herald reader commented. Er, sorry dude, but yes it is.

1. It is incorrect to assume that “working-class people don’t [want] a better life” (understood)
2. The reader’s comment is sort of a double-negative, which essentially reduces to “they are likely to say that ‘life is a competition’.” (odd, though it’s unclear whom “they” is referring to)
3. But if that was really the essence of the comment, then why does she respond to the quote by restating it, i.e. “yes, [life is a competition]”?

I get the point of the column is that greed/striving for personal success is an important component behind a thriving business world, but this paragraph (really the article’s would-be-defining paragraph) seemed a bit jumbled — confirm or deny?