"I'm 40 something I am a millionaire I bicker with my wife over the next thing we will add to our high tech house so I feel like shit"
"I am a solo founder who got burned out and lost all meaning"
"I'm a deeply conflicted person who believes it is good to help people but I can't bring myself to do it, why oh why?"
Is HN slowly turning into some sort of psychological outlet for troubled men?
That said, people need to learn introspection. All these questions are answerable if you sit down and think about things for awhile. Life is not mysterious; it's often boring and repetitive. Life is not supposed to be one dopamine hit after the next. Accept this, and a lot of the drudgery makes sense.
After +15 years alone like that it take a toll on their mental health.
And after such a long time they are really far behind in social skill and they understand that doing a todo app with every new javascript framework is for most of people not the meaning of life and they don't know where to start.
Those are real issues, made particularly worse due to covid.
They also make it to the front page so they ought to resonate with the crowd.
You can't find a place where people are honest yet direct with you without the burning bridges.
I personally wouldn't want to be in any place where you don't see the frustrations of people in the same page where people discuss their interest. Twitter and Linkedin is vent free and I find them to be hypocratic.
Just appreciate that you're alive because as long as thats true, the story continues.