Reading this made me think about life & the world & where everything is heading and that was not a good feeling :(

Think you're right on about this. Everything feels so bleak and pointless. At my job right now I'm doing stupid busywork fiddling with the UI for some garbage product nobody is going to buy so that some asshole venture capitalists can enrichen themselves. And since I'm living at home not paying rent most of that is going towards stocks which are of course doing dismally.

And a new job would maybe pay more (whopee) and then I could be making richer and more prestigious venture capitalists money working on a product that's competently evil instead of just not very good.

Or if I wasn't doing anything things would be pretty much the same except with too much free time and I'd feel a little guilty but if I got fired tomorrow it'd be kinda whatever. Which is a very privledged take I know but aaaa what's the point of doing things if it barely makes your life better and probably makes the world worse off overall.

I think that's a lot of the appeal of FIRE, certainly is for me at least. What else is worth spending money on other than getting Out.

Anyways sorry if this was off topic just what your comment reminded me of