Counterpoint: ikigai. Can everybody achieve ikigai? No. But not everybody can achieve xyz, but doesn't mean xyz isn't worth striving for whenever possible. It

Counterpoint: ikigai. Can everybody achieve ikigai? No. But not everybody can achieve xyz, but doesn't mean xyz isn't worth striving for whenever possible. It occurred to me that several friends could swap jobs between them and achieve ikigai, but they've been at their respective corp since before the IPO and doing xyz professionally for two decades, they feel it wouldn't be "a good career move", yet openly declare their disdain for their profession, position and respective workplace. Obviously, that's a big life decision not to take lightly, but it does strike me that some people accept x because they don't feel they can have better.