I figured I'd post this here because I'd probably get the highest quality feedback...
Essentially, I've already beaten the game of life based on most objectives people have. I've gone as far as feasibly possible on my own. I don't know how to elevate my situation anymore. I earn $150k/yr. I only need to do about 2 hours of actual work a day to get my job done so I just spend most my day shitposting on the internet because I've got nothing better to do. I already live in one of the best cities in Canada. I have a nice house, a nice car and I've got $100k sitting in my bank account. I'm situated to inherent about $2m. I could probably retire if I just saved my money at about 45-50yo and maintain the same standard of living as now. I have 0 "negative" influences on my life. No stress from anything. I eat healthy. I go to the gym. I'm in shape. I play summer and winter team sports. I have a bit of a social life and hang out with people on average probably once a week outside of work.
The problem is that life is boring as fuck for me. I don't really enjoy much of what I get up to. I feel like my whole existence is just working for other people's benefit instead of my own. I'm just a tax payer for the government's interest. I have no life of my own it seems. I just exist to fulfil a role for everyone else in society. That's how I feel anyhow.
Video games are also boring to me. I can barely play an hour of any game before I get bored of it.
The only enjoyment I seem to get out of life is when I travel but that's only because I blow tons of money which isn't sustainable and then as soon as the trip is done, it's back to the grind. Kind of depressing to get 3 weeks out of the year where I actually felt like I was living and the other 49 weeks is just standby mode waiting for the next 3 weeks off to travel and blow a bunch of money.
Whenever I gaze into the lives of others around me most seem to be caught up in some sort of personal drama that in actuality is mostly fabricated because whomever is involved in the drama lacks the wisdom or competence to solve the drama. Most of the problems people are caught up can easily be solved but it almost seems like people feed on this drama and it's what gives their life meaning. That doesn't seem any better to me. That just seems like people trying to find something to distract their attention so they never have to fall into the situation I'm in and truly analyze if they're happy with their life.
All the "cultural" shit in our society just feels fake and contrived to me. I couldn't give a shit what TayTay or Kardashian is up to. All the politics is nothing but theatre for the masses. Nothing will change. Nothing that the media reports on matters. You have no control over any of it. It's a waste of energy, like every other avenue it seems. Media is boring. It's just all the same repetitive tropes. History is boring because it's all made up and anyone can make up whatever they want. Religion is also a lost cause for me. If all that matters is life after life then what about my life now. Just more holding pattern. Work to pay taxes to Rome until you die. I might as well just be dead now.
How do people manage through life? It's just so monotonous.
I spent most of my life trying to pursue career+women and both those ends seem entirely worthless. I already peaked on those fronts, now I'm supposed to enjoy the fruits of my hard work or something but there's nothing to enjoy.
So, I have a good income and stable situation. What would you guys do? What am I supposed to do? I've tried the basic join clubs and shit but frankly, I hate most other people. My kind of people are the Genghis Khans of the world. Maybe a Dionysus type. I find most people I meet in normal venues in the community are just dry, boring people living their monotonous lives too. All judging others from whatever sense of moral high ground they're standing on compared to others. Most seeing fun as vice. Canadians in general also seem to be too untrusting of others and guarded.
This life just seems to be a drag and it really shouldn't be because I do have a lot of good things going for me but I don't know how to turn what I have going for me into anything more. I feel like my existence at the moment is just to prop up a giant Ponzi scheme known as civilization.
Any advice?
I don't enjoy helping people. I used to do a lot of volunteering and charity work when I was younger. I just found most people don't really need the help. Most people's problems in life are of their own making and I feel justice is a higher calling than charity. What most people need is to face the consequences of their actions instead of being helped by others so they never have to. I think, at least for Canada, the best help for everyone that people can receive is no help at all. Stop feeding the animals. Only then can these people truly be motivated to elevate themselves.
I have assets and each month I acquire about $3000 more assets. My income is as high as it will ever get. There's absolutely 0 way for me to reasonably increase it anymore. I've capped out. It's a matter of luck and timing at this point rather than anything in my control.
Your income is only as high as the risk level you're willing to take on. It doesn't sound like you want to increase risk with a lower chance of return. That's reasonable but don't act like it's completely impossible.
Time to become a superhero and use your money to buy high-tech gadgets, like Batman.
I like taking risk. I gamble lots, for fun. Not all risks are worth taking though. Anyone could take their life savings and put it on red at the casino but most people don't. Why? That's because they know it's a bad risk. On average, you will lose. I work in finance. One of my previous job titles was risk manager. I essentially have a master's in stats specializing in valuing risk. I know what are good risks and what aren't. Most risks out there are bad risks but the only reason people take them is because they don't know how to measure risk. You won't hear the stories of the people whose risk failed but you will hear of the successes. Anytime I see a risk worth taking, I take it.
My favorite superhero is Thanos and he just seemed to have immense power rather than gadgets. Batman and Ironman are filthy rich though, which I will never be. If I had that kind of money I probably would do shit like Elon Musk. Just buy companies to troll people for the lawls.
I think the problem with charity work and volunteering is that the whole thing is set up like a job. Or a government funded program. In either case, it takes a lot of the human component out of the experience and doesn't actually feel as meaningful. And I agree, a lot of peoples' challenges are their faults. Not always, but fairly often.
Even so, sometimes all it takes is a single act that makes someone's day a little bit better, and it can make a bigger difference than you realize.
The people who often most need and deserve help are often the people who never ask for it. Charities reach the wrong people more times than they reach the right people. In my experience, anyhow. I prefer making friends and helping my friends.
Aye, I've found that to be quite true as well.
I tend to prefer that as well, for a myriad of reasons. At least with friends you'll usually know what's going on and what kind of assistance you can render.
Still, it can sometimes be rewarding helping out a random stranger you come across who's clearly down on their luck. Just sort of depends on the situation really.
I agree what's going on in Palestine and Syria is pretty bad. Who should I be helping to bring down the American and Israeli governments to stop what's going on there? Helping the individual people impacted doesn't seem to properly address the underlying issue. That is, the American and Israeli governments and the shadow oligarchy that supports them. I'm pretty sure to stop them, I'd need to become a terrorist though...
There's always someone who wins the game of poker, always. It doesn't mean everyone playing has a reasonable chance of winning. Why aren't you President of the United States? There's always a president every 4 years, just try harder... That's a false end to pursue. If one was truly on a trajectory to become president they'd already know. Most people's lives can be accurately determined based on their situation in life when they were 20yo. There's exceptions but those exceptions tend to be based on chance more than anything else.
How does one jump out of the matrix. I imagine everyone here, yourself included, is still in the Matrix so I'm not sure if that answer can be found here.
Also a good tax write-off and if you have no scruples, starting foundations is a way to acquire more money from suckers.