Success is the easiest thing in the world

I think I have always been a determinist/unknownist at heart. By that, I mean that everything can be determined by computation, provided that you have the sufficient computational power and intelligence. Unknownist, because the future is unknown unless you compute it, or the universe "computes" it.

The social illusions known as "success", happiness are easy, for those with the means and timing. After that, it's all about making sure that you play all your cards (this is what all the pushing for equal opportunities is about)

Success is mostly about the optimum, getting the optimum cost-benefit ratio. The most comfy income source for the lowest price, which takes you the least time. That's what makes one happy. If you play your cards right, you get the optimum result.

Reality is totally annoying. I think whatever we call reality knows that too, because plenty of people are annoyed with parts of itself. Maybe reality being annoyed at itself is reality.

"Success" is by definition easy, if you consider the costs and benefits in its entireity. "Failure" is by definition less difficult.

Then, in this way, we all succeed in our own way. We are all successful by default and always. What you are successful at, people and society and institutions may not approve of, but you are always successful.

Socially-approved success is by definition difficult and sub-optimal for most people - if everyone was successful, it wouldn't be called success. We wouldn't have a word for it. Some people like to critique others.  I think things are how they should be. The success of American/Western societies is essentially based on the idea that if everyone operates at their optimum, there is least wastage of useful resources AND resources on the less successful, also known as the optimal. Of course, this means that not everyone's going to be rich, the wealth gap is always going to grow and some people will always be least well off. But it's the best of both individualism and collectivism - individuals free to do as they please and society getting the optimal result - as long as it doesn't get subverted by artificial ideologies like socialism, or the individuals don't try to tweak the collective (eg. government, lobbying) and the collective doesn't try to force the individual to adopt its values. In other words, back to a Garden of Eden situation where you don't try to gain forbidden knowledge regarding how to tweak the system and God leaves you alone to live naturally.

Success is...just a word, a representation of subjective meaning. Success is just things are. And that, is the definition of easy.

Above is also a demonstration of how you can take a word causing psychological stress and render it harmless. I should call this meaning-destruction therapy and license myself, like all the other so-called great psychologists/psychiatrists Freud, Jung and Skinner.