I wasted years of my life in crypto

Is it really a waste if you made enough money to retire?

Right, OP writes up crypto as being this terrible disease with no meaning. But outside of crypto there aren't many jobs that have real meaning either. I worked for the UN at one point, and that was actually one of the worse.

At the end of the day you are always just working to make someone else rich or to give them the promotion they want. If you get rich yourself along the way, take that as a win.

I respectfully disagree. Even if you told me that you felt like working at the UN was a waste of time, I’d still tell you that at least you contributed to a historically unique global institution which at least strives to bring people across the world together.

Bitcoin was just a waste of talent and resources.

Half the people here work for random SaaS and socially corrosive companies like Meta that have literally helped install dictators into power

You could do worse than building crappy blockchains