that probably makes it feel even worse for most people

imagine spending years to develop mastery of something that anyone can do now? For example, sitting your ass down in college, debugging lines of code on a Saturday night while people are out partying? It's fun to do, sure, but there's still a huge opportunity cost.

It's easy to say that such people are prideful, arrogant, only cares about being better than others, but I think such a feeling sucks for 99% of the population that are not siddharthas.

> It's easy to say that such people are prideful, arrogant, only cares about being better than others

The most vocal denouncers of egoism are utterly pathologic egoists themselves.