Why do people care so much about succes and status or a title?

I feel like I don't have what most have. The desire to become something and/or to have some title and/or to be above other people. I just want to be a human that can have fun as much as possible. I want to be free as much as I can. It has to at least not feel like I am giving more than I get back, or I will have regrets afterwards on my deathbed.

However from early on I am told I must be something in society. They ask "what are you gonna be when you grow up? " and they glorify it like you will save the world or something and that it will be amazing. "You can become anything you want". They make children look at a job like it is incredibly fun and they will have no problems or hardship (which is a lie). Later we are coerced into studies and careers and they expect ambition, there they try to motivate you to work hard and become something also. I will automatically become better over time by experience, but I am not that driven like others. In school I was happy with just passing grades.

After school some people are entrepreneurs working even in weekends to reach succes. Others in a normal job like responsibility and/or status/titles. They keep working hard and then being happy about their high position and being important.

I see work mainly just a a trade. I trade in my life time for a roof over my head, food and time for fun. The time for fun is what matters most to me, that is life to me. That's why I chose a 32 hour job and even that often exhausts me.

Does Asperger's strip us of our ego? I feel like I just have no ego. I also don't get happy if I have a lot responsibility, status, succes or some title.

Responsibility only makes life worse to me. Just let me do my job quietly until I am done and then give me an equal amount of time to have fun. No need for promotion, except maybe a little more salary so I don't have to be cautious with spending to much. Also, with more salary I can work less.

If anyone watches one piece the following quote is really relatable: "I don’t want to conquer anything, i just think the guy with the most freedom in this whole ocean, is THE PIRATE KING!!".

It would be nice to know of a safe predetermined path to quickly never have to work again (even if I have a year of incredible pain) . However I don't know a path that will 100% guarantee that I will be free quickly. The safest path is to have a normal job, work as less as I can, and accept that I have to work.