Don't stare at that one million anymore. Calculate how much your current hourly wage is really worth.

If you're in the top ten on the leaderboard, it means your survival logic is still stuck in the primitive physical labor era.
High salaries indeed come with double the effort, but if that effort is repetitive at a low level, you'll never outpace inflation and aging.
The most expensive cost in life is time. Dreaming of social mobility with a monthly salary of a few thousand yuan is not a dream; it's an illusion.
The first step to facing reality is to admit that relying solely on selling your unit of time will never make you rich.