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What does Ecclesiastes 9:3 mean?

This is the hard truth about life: everyone ends up the same, and as long as people are alive, they’re full of selfishness and craziness. Then they die. Ecclesiastes 9:3 - Modern Text Bible

(The writer is blunt about the human condition—people are often driven by selfishness and folly, and death is the great equalizer.)