On the bright side, your struggle does serve someone. The harder you work, the more you leverage your time and funds, and the more you donate to the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors. Interest…fees paid to others to take over mundane tasks, fees paid to maintenance, different types of insurance…. All life-fees that sneak into one’s life when one can no longer manage their own stresses. The bigger one’s life, the greater the donation to the FIRE sector. This is why the allure of growth is sold to us