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Working hard to become successful is one of the biggest copes
Working hard to become successful is one of the biggest copes
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01-25-2026, 06:56 PM
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Working hard to become successful is one of the biggest copes
Trying to overcompensate for your impeding mortality
That by "making it" there will be at least some meaning to your existence and it wasn't all for nothing
But you know in the grand scheme of things it is all for nothing
Even if you don't want to admit it because the existential void is too much to accept
Cemeteries around the world are littered with the remains of people who were very hard working and successful, many of them more than you'll ever be
Almost all of who you've never heard of before and who have disappeared in the abyss of eternity forgotten
The others at most they got a wikipedia page or some building named after them
Once you realize and accept this is when you stop putting in effort and just coasting
While smuggishly smirking at those who are still trying no matter how successful they become because they haven't figured it out yet
That by "making it" there will be at least some meaning to your existence and it wasn't all for nothing
But you know in the grand scheme of things it is all for nothing
Even if you don't want to admit it because the existential void is too much to accept
Cemeteries around the world are littered with the remains of people who were very hard working and successful, many of them more than you'll ever be
Almost all of who you've never heard of before and who have disappeared in the abyss of eternity forgotten
The others at most they got a wikipedia page or some building named after them
Once you realize and accept this is when you stop putting in effort and just coasting
While smuggishly smirking at those who are still trying no matter how successful they become because they haven't figured it out yet
01-25-2026, 06:59 PM
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- edwardhaskell
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Originally Posted By GMiscer⏩
Bingo. Time is the most valuable thing. Be a glutton with ownership of your time once you have the necessities covered.
Trying to overcompensate for your impeding mortality
That by "making it" there will be at least some meaning to your existence and it wasn't all for nothing
But you know in the grand scheme of things it is all for nothing
Even if you don't want to admit it because the existential void is too much to accept
Cemeteries around the world are littered with the remains of people who were very hard working and successful, many of them more than you'll ever be
Almost all of who you've never heard of before and who have disappeared in the abyss of eternity forgotten
The others at most they got a wikipedia page or some building named after them
Once you realize and accept this is when you stop putting in effort and just coasting
While smuggishly smirking at those who are still trying no matter how successful they become because they haven't figured it out yet
That by "making it" there will be at least some meaning to your existence and it wasn't all for nothing
But you know in the grand scheme of things it is all for nothing
Even if you don't want to admit it because the existential void is too much to accept
Cemeteries around the world are littered with the remains of people who were very hard working and successful, many of them more than you'll ever be
Almost all of who you've never heard of before and who have disappeared in the abyss of eternity forgotten
The others at most they got a wikipedia page or some building named after them
Once you realize and accept this is when you stop putting in effort and just coasting
While smuggishly smirking at those who are still trying no matter how successful they become because they haven't figured it out yet
01-25-2026, 07:00 PM
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01-25-2026, 07:01 PM
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- MiscDetective
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What if they maximize their life enjoyment by being successful?
01-25-2026, 07:02 PM
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01-25-2026, 07:02 PM
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- edwardhaskell
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Originally Posted By ymer⏩
up to a certain point it does...but once you have that amount you could be trading time for less and less actual return. think of someone with $5m + freedom for 40 years vs the person that keeps grinding those those 40 years to get $25m.
Im amassing wealth so I can live peacefully in this crazy world with less worries.
Money solves all kinds of problems and buys freedom in the current world.
Money solves all kinds of problems and buys freedom in the current world.
I'd rather be 45 with $3m and freedom than to be 75 with $25m...having traded many good healthy years to get there.
01-25-2026, 07:14 PM
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01-25-2026, 07:16 PM
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- edwardhaskell
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Originally Posted By ymer⏩
if you're smart enough you'll find a way either way. i retired in my 20s and my net worth has only gone up. granted my hard costs of living are very low.
That's correct.
But there's crazy volatility uncertainty now, so I have to shoot way beyond my initial pre-covid goals. I wanted to retire by 40, and I probably could but I wouldn't feel very calm with my current savings.
But there's crazy volatility uncertainty now, so I have to shoot way beyond my initial pre-covid goals. I wanted to retire by 40, and I probably could but I wouldn't feel very calm with my current savings.
01-25-2026, 08:03 PM
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Smugness intensifies
01-25-2026, 08:05 PM
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