When you have everything, but you still haven’t found contentment, you may feel like everything is futile.  That’s where Solomon was when he began his journey.

“Absolute futility,” says the Teacher.  “Everything is futile” (v. 2).

Solomon is on a journey to find the meaning of life.  His network is the equivalent of 3.3 trillion US dollars in today’s value, so there was nothing his money couldn’t buy.  And yet, he still didn’t find his happiness in the things of this life.