…which is a completely different argument than what you started with. You’re blatantly moving the goalposts.

Only by being yourself you can find people who like you for who you are rather than who you pretend to be. Nobody can beat you at being you but you can only be the second best at pretending to be someone else.

I take that to mean that if you are weird then embrace it. That attracts other similarly weird people and those are the best kind. There’s no point in being liked for being someone you’re not so why pretend.

In this particular case autism has lots to do with it.

If you say so.

I don’t see how irrationality would follow from the belief that there is no ultimate meaning to any of this. What matters is this moment right now. The rest of it is just a story I’m telling myself.

I’ll make a wild guess that you too came here from reddit. That makes you one of those people. We’re all just redditors telling ourself a comforting story about how we’re better than those people over there.

The question presupposes the thing you ask me to inspect and I reject the premise. There is no reason to any of this. It just is.

Passive income doesn’t exist.

Roughly 5 million USD invested into stock market is enough to live a comfortable middle-class life off the interest.

Investing in low cost, highly diversified ETF index funds. I’m currently earning roughly 3 to 4 month’s wage per year passively from interests though it’s all invested back into the fund.

You said you’re young so this especially applies to you. Time in the market > Timing the market.

I’d almost extend this to any kinds of trickery about what people are putting into their mouths. The consequences can be lethal at worst.

A bit unrelated but at a previous work place the guys there put viagra into another guy’s food as a joke where as I would’ve considered that borderline assault.

I’d pretty much go as far as to claim that ketchup is only good with fries and even there it’s still outmatched by mayo.

The “break” from sitting in my case means working

No need to overthink reversible decisions. You’re not signing up for a platform for life. If it seems bad then you switch, or if it simply doesn’t work out then you go do something else. You’re not dooming the rest of your life here.

You won’t regret trying and failing but you will regret not even giving it a chance.

Bonus if its pure HTML.

That’s what mine essentially is. I did that myself as well with no past experience and it shows. I’m put off by small businesses with those ultra fancy websites that technically look good but are difficult to navigate and frankly don’t inspire a huge amount of trust. I’m a guy and a van - not a multimillion corporation and I want the website to reflect that as well.

It has a picture of me and some background about what I’m up to and why. There’s pictures of my previous work for reference, a list of examples of work that I do and also what I don’t do, and there’s my pricing and contact information as well as a contact form. That’s it. No fancy animations or graphics. Just labeled buttons and pages with clearly laid out information and pictures.

I even designed my own logo.

If youre a nice person who actually calls me back I’ll probably hire you for work.

Exactly. The bar is incredibly low. Standing out to your advantage has never been easier.

I went from an employee to self-employed and I didn’t exactly have prior work experience in that particular field (renovation work) but my previous job was kind of related (plumbing).

I shared like 2000 flyers to the houses near me over the first year but had to stop since I’m already over-booked and can’t do more without hiring employees, which I’m not going to do.

It’s not exactly easy but it’s not exceedingly hard either. If it’s something you literally can’t stop thinking about then that’s a good sign. Someone who does it just for money has to work so much harder than someone who has a passion for it - and people notice.

The +200 of them that I have blocked.

And Plato argued that writing things down is bad because then we don’t need to remember anything.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Very little. I’ve obtained most of my material desires and what ever I still want I could techically afford but can’t justify it - like a quad bike.

I didn’t ask for much to begin with and I’m satisfied with what I got. Not wanting a thing is as good as having it.