> "well, even if I get my shit together it'll still not a Nash equilibrium because the world is irreparably fucked for me"
IMO that's exactly it. At certain point I decided that I will work both harder and smarter because I like money and the peace of mind and freedom they enable... but in the end all my aspirations for changing the world for the better won't ever materialize, I am pretty sure of it.
So in the end it turns out that a happy philosophy would be something like in the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy":
"Just do what makes you happy and don't worry about the world."
Even that is pretty hard nowadays because we constantly get bombarded with comparisons. The media REALLY loves turning people on each other.
IMO that's exactly it. At certain point I decided that I will work both harder and smarter because I like money and the peace of mind and freedom they enable... but in the end all my aspirations for changing the world for the better won't ever materialize, I am pretty sure of it.
So in the end it turns out that a happy philosophy would be something like in the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy":
"Just do what makes you happy and don't worry about the world."
Even that is pretty hard nowadays because we constantly get bombarded with comparisons. The media REALLY loves turning people on each other.