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Even if you never get rich or become individuated, you can still have a net positive impact on the world. In 10 years, you could get a undergraduate, masters, and almost a PhD in biology/wildlife studying some obscure arctic shrimp and spend your time in remote isolated climes researching it. If at the end of your life your research culiminates in this shrimp being a bit more understood and a bit more likely to survive pollution, climate-change, and environmental destruction, even TAHT is worth it. Just for the sake of some random shrimp, your life is worth it. It doesn't matter how much time you have wasted or what a fuck up you are, you can always become worth it to somene, or something

You can live to 50 having nothing and having done nothing. If you then spend 10 years volunteering and being a force of joy and helping in kids lives, such that even if it was just a small positive impact, that positive impact will skew them slightly, and they in turn will interact in a positive fashion with hundreds or thousands of people throughout their lives in a radiant fashion, and thus your positive influence explodes in a non-linear way, compared to if you killed yourself and did NOTHING. This is why, barring extreme circumstances, you are always worth something and suicide is never the answer