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Why Working Hard Will Keep You Poor Forever

The Hidden Cost of Being a Good Employee

Jul 30, 2025
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Japanese elderly community gardening outdoors in Okinawa, living their ikigai with purpose and connection in nature.
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The biggest silent scam of our era isn’t the financial system. It’s not inflation. Not even taxes.

It’s soulless work.

Millions of people spend the best years of their lives trapped in jobs they hate, surrounded by people they’d never choose to spend time with outside a Zoom call, building someone else’s dream, not their own. All for money.

Not for freedom. Not for growth. Just money.

And it’s not your fault. The system is designed that way. We’re taught to fit in, obey, earn, consume. But no one tells you this: if you ignore your intuition long enough, you forget it. And when you lose your intuition, you lose direction. You lose your ikigai.

In Japan, ikigai means something deep: a reason for being. What gets you up in the morning. What makes your actions meaningful. It’s not just a job or a hobby or a mission — it’s the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.

But to find it, you need time. Space. Silence. And t…

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