When did you realize life is a scam?

Life is just pain and piss, it's nothing that I will miss, and everything is a scam.

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>>35853370
In middle school. I was getting top grades and always doing everything grownups expected me to do, yet I had 0 friends or social interaction and people who couldn't even do 2+2 right were being treated by their parents and teachers incomparably better than I ever were. I've been taught that academic performance is the only thing that matters at that age so then why were utter failures getting all the praise and support while everyone was just waiting for me to stumble to laugh at me, teachers included? I realized it's not about what you do but about who you are and if people decide that you're human garbage, nothing's going to change it.

When i realised it was better for most other people that arent me for no real discernable tangible reasons

when i realised that the strong rule the weak and always will. there is no escape

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When I was 11.

>Be smart kid who understands probabilities
>Notice bad things happen disproportionately often

Now a decade later and it has only gotten worse.

When it became clear that society is organized based around your parents' wealth and the decisions people make as teenagers, and that it offers no second chances.

>>35853370
When zi becme phmless

When I realized that most people are ridiculously easily manipulated. Life being a scam is a consequence of that and people being manipulated by others for their own ends

When I realized that too many people, including me, experience life-ruining circumstances that I can possibly ever view life as a beautiful, valuable thing.