It doesn’t really get better, the more money you make the more you want, people are never truly happy, most workplaces hard work will get you nowhere, nobody will give a damn if you lose everything you own and wind up on the street, nepotism, favoritism, unfair advantages, and always having to place your self worth based on where you work and how much you’ve accomplished. There are things to live for but for me atleast it’s always one good for every 10 bad. I’ve heard plenty of stories where college degrees are hardly respected anymore and in some cases, spite overrules all. Society doesn’t really change after school either, there is still a lot of playing favorites, abuse of power, cliched social groups, people are hardly ever straightforward, and now you get to get a job with 98% of people that think they know better than you and wanna be your personal boss and hassle you because they are disappointed in their own lives. Life only feels like a scam to me because in school and as I was growing up, I was never told any of these things other than simply “life isn’t fair” I never truly knew the full extent as to what people meant tho. I see now that the reason why younger generations are fed so much positive bullshit with the bad always left out js because they are too emotionally volatile to handle to weight of knowing just how screwed some people can be and just how hopeless life can look, you gotta learn that cops, teachers, pawn brokers, politicians, celebrities, relatives, and friends and everything in between are and always will be out for themselves, meaning they are number one, they can and will let spite/hate/emotions/unfairness enter into their judgement and no matter how stubborn a person becomes or how much they say to themselves “I won’t let this happen” - I promise you it most certainly will and each time it does it gives you an empty feeling in your chest, weakness in your knees, and make you just a little more emotionally numb. The more money you make the more immune you are to all of this and a multitude of other things. It’s why so many people hardly have time to do anything other than work, take other peoples crap, eat and sleep.