As you grow older mind sports are an effective and cheap way to stay mentally active. Much better than being at home watching TV all day which is what many eld

As you grow older mind sports are an effective and cheap way to stay mentally active. Much better than being at home watching TV all day which is what many elderly people are forced to do due to poor mobility. In Japan many elderly people play Go and Shogi. In China people play Weichi and Xiangqi, the equivalent games respectively. They are also not necessarily a waste of time. The intuition and insights gained in board games can be used in other aspects of your life. We do many wasteful things as humans. We cut down trees to turn them into supermarket marketing that go directly into the trash. We drive 5 seat vehicles with one person in them and spend a lot of time waiting in traffic so for other 5 seat vehicles with one person in them. We spend money on overpriced shiny stuff with no purpose. We spend years in college learning about computer science so we can disregard most of it and push dirty code full of tech debt. We spend in scientific research so then a climate change denier, flat earther or anti vaxxer refutes it with no proof.