It's very pleasant to have 0 dependence on anybody or anything other than these games. You go in whenever you want, do your thing, and at the end of the day you

It's very pleasant to have 0 dependence on anybody or anything other than these games. You go in whenever you want, do your thing, and at the end of the day you have earned or lost money. It feels something like a microcosm of a purely merit based capitalism. But the major downside is the lack of creation. I enjoy construction as well as software development for the same reason. At the end of the day (or year perhaps...) you can see something, that did not exist before, that you have created. That just feels really good. In gaming, you can make plenty of money but you aren't really creating anything and so it ends up feeling quite empty - especially when variance is doing its thing.