It started with cheating on a test. As kids we were told the MCAS scores mattered for the rest of our lives. The SAT mattered for the rest of our lives. We were told that the results and our future success mattered the most. It was not explained to us from a policy perspective; that we use standardized testing to find the most promising applicants and to divert school resources most efficiently. We never saw the back end of that, we're just told that beating the test = good.
It's now the current year, and the test is way different. College grads don't really have better employment outcomes than high school grads. The test we need to beat is attractiveness. As it turns out, how we look matters more than studying for the SAT, it matters more than helping customer #9423892, it matters more than anything besides maybe money.
We went and built a society where money and physical appearance are the primary determinants in life's success. You might say "what about motivation and intelligence?" Well I would agree, but here we have the intelligent and motivated people using those traits to pursue money and appearance. Being smart and ambitious are simply the means to acquire money and appearance.
Everyone hating on Clavicular is doing it because they're mad that he's right. They get confused between "being correct" and "that's a good thing." The ideology that Clav follows and promotes is NOT GOOD for society, but we aren't going to be able to shout him down, we will never be able to shame him and the kids who are like him, it won't work because we built this broken society that rewards this ideology. Clav and looksmaxxing and kids taking PEDs are a symptom, not the cause, of this problem.
Any system we make is going to get gamed. People will always find a way to exploit it and navigate it as efficiently as possible. And right now, that means being hot/jacked/rich. If you think there are "other things" that matter, you'll have to build a society where those things are rewarded.