We really will keep doing this to ourselves for all of time. Everyone will continue to be slaves to something, whether it's hatred or flexing, because we ENVY what we don't have and will hate/be jealous of others for what they do have. As yet another overblown "scandal" of an idol eating/partying/smoking/etc infuriates losers online who are miserable in their life offline continues, his point will still be valid because we live in a dog-eat-dog world where if you're not better than someone else in some way (via money, status, reputation etc) then neither can anyone else because of envy and jealously.
His upbringing came from poverty, so his social commentary will always come from a place of understanding no matter how many fake outcries of illiterate/uneducated fools keep screeching out. They will always give: