The gamification of life has helped me a lot here. In the game of life, happiness and enjoyment are the core goals. Like any other game, the difficulty settin

The gamification of life has helped me a lot here. In the game of life, happiness and enjoyment are the core goals. Like any other game, the difficulty setting on which I play it should not make a difference. Games can be enjoyable on easy, medium or hard difficulty. Just that the effort-reward curve can be distributed a bit differently. Both Money and Career Success are tangential to your life's fundamental goals. You have to figure out what those are, and work towards them directly , rather than use weak heuristics like money and standing. Just like a game (say an RPG), the happiness comes from leveling up and beating a competitive boss, rather than reaching endgame where you are rich and king of the continent. Similarly, for me, it is working towards the next achievable goal and making constant progress that give the most happiness. When your happiness is tied only to your relative position yesterday, then your absolute position (which is most influenced by unfairness) is unimportant. Despite huge imporvements in QOL over the last few centuries, afaik human happiness had stayed constant. If you decide to blame unfairness for your dissatisfaction with life, then no amount of absolute gains will ever let you feel you have reached the point where you make peace with it.. Like worldly phenomena, we are resigned to the tides, the day night cycle and our mortality. Humans make peace with their existence knowing that we can't control their routines. Along the same line, unfairness in life is just as colossal a phenomenon. You may not be able to work against it or stop it, so its just better to make peace with it and work around it to achieve the aforementioned fundamental goals.