The book is basically Atlas Shrugged Running with Scissors. Everyone around The Maker is a Taker whose frayed social safety net does not properly instill a sense of personal responsibility and all the disinterested liberal drones around The Maker are more focused on his adherence to their byzantine social mores than his intrinsic value as an individual. The Maker exists between two worlds because as a bootstrapped thought leader neither the entitleist welfare morlocks nor the misdirected benificence of the liberal eloi offer the goldilocks zone of free thought and free enterprise I'd like to thank Peter Thiel for believing in me. "Hillbilly made good" is Sergeant York or The Quiet Man. "Capitalist Rags to Riches" is 8 Mile or Straight Outta Compton. The grift is archetypal Cato Institute bullshit where success is available to anyone white who happens to befriend billionaires born of privilege.