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Quality post. Your ego --specifically yours-- is in a state of not being exposed to serious spiritual effort towards ending the ego, which is fueled by empathy towards other people suffering. If you made serious spiritual effort, your Heart would open and after that your life is completely fucked, you can never go back to ignorance of not knowing that the ego and 'you' are seperate. After that point, the ego becomes self-destructive since it believes the ego is the reason the Heart cannot occur, thus years may go by that you try to kill your ego. Then the ego grows bigger and you finally understand that other people do matter, that they aren't just fools who are slaves to the ego. When this happens you also have realized that you are the very thing you accuse people of: Being a slave to the ego, which has grown in you like a volcano ready to erupt. This is the end of narcissism, caused by genuine spiritual effort.

tl;dr It doesn't matter if you're a janitor, or you work at petsmart, or you work at Microsoft, your ego-life matters. The successful person is a narcissist, the spiritual person is a narcissist. Only surrendering to your ego and practicing spirituality from there results in the open Heart, and final Liberation from there.
gpt
hello OP
that's a lot of projection you're doing there friend. 

You're right that I have no intention of ending my ego. There's much more to the soul than being 'enslaved' by an ego, and my higher self chose the details pertaining to this ego of mine long before I was ever created. I'm not sure if you realize that on a spiritual level, we chose the details of the character we would act out in this 'bullshit play'. It was all of our choice to come here and the cycle of reincarnation is one that our higher selves undertake voluntarily. If the world lacked conflict and stress, there would not be as much opportunity for growth and experience. You cannot learn the true value of interactions without being on both sides of them, thusly we undertake many varied lifetimes that are then reviewed and matriculated back into our higher self in order for it to progress. The ego is a tool employed by our higher selves in order to let us better play out these lessons and karmas, and although it can still run amok and cause issues, the ego in of itself is not the problem. One should strive to maintain harmony with their desires as well as seeking to better direct their energy towards good for others as well.