>>53558752Pokemon trainers are the elite. If you're not a trainer then you're fucked. Every powerful person/politician is also a pokemon trainer. Sometimes they have a career in battling as well as in politics or business.
Everything revolves around pokemon. Every kind of technology is powered by pokemon. Pokemon professors are highly influential. So there is no success without pokemon in that world. Pokemon can do basically anything, and do it better than humans, save for one thing - being a trainer. If you don't have talent as a trainer then you can't possibly compete with those who do.
That's why it is important to start your pokemon journey as early as possible. Raising pokemon is an essential skill.