"If you think that studycelling all day will somehow
magically make you rich or happy in the future. "
No one said that, studying and improving your current cognitive abilities through mental stimulation both feels good and it is better then doing nothing.
"How good your grades are past the first year of high school is pre determined by genetics and environment, you didn't use your willpower or free will to get something to be proud of, it was just pre determined."
Well, if you are going to argue about free will yes indeed. Most of the existence we experience is pre determined howevee not all of it, you stil need to show some efford in order to learn the subjects you taught. I generally hate to give anecdotes however i am inclined to believe that it will fit in here:
In my high school there was a truly cmentally insufficient" kid, in the first year of school he failed in every single subject in school curricula. After getting sick of the situation he actually started to study a lot, about 9 hours a day with the help of the high caffeine dosage. After torturing himself he got good grades, i think most of them were 90 out of 100 mark. Did the others got these marks a lot easier than him? Yes indeed, the world is not just after all. I dont know what happened to him after that though.
If you want sone more scientific approach i urge you to red this Jaeggi's paper, their research was actually groundbreaking and they seen that using dual n back actually increase their cognitive abilites in considerable amounts! Even with different mental tasks.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105
Also as you can imagine neuroplasticity and neurogenesis is a factor in intelligence aswell, you can only increase it by mental stimulation. Which novelty, being a philomath and polymath can give you a great advantage in.
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/rev-1091116.pdf
"People who become rich leave the normie path after high school or after college and actually do something instead of rotting in a 9 to 5 job as if rotting 0 to 24 because of school wasn't enough."
They can afford to leave the normie path because they are rich, i dont think anyone here would be able to sustain such a lifestyle. Norm of the life is pain, humans are destined to experience pain and misery by default. Only a small minority lives life on a silver platter.
I think the problem is your perception of studying, original poster. For example i couldnt understand your one comment.
"I don't see how torturing yourself with pointless nonsense will help you cope."
First of all this depends on what is the individual is studying, second of all i dont see how learning is "torturing yourself". Studying gives me euphoric feeling for example; learning about existence, history of the old, how things work makes me feel good. Why? Feeling of satisfaction, giving your effort for satisfying your curiousity of course.
Everyone should keep their curious side, try not to see scientific subjects as "keys for existence" rather then torture machines.