> I was like "yeah, im doing well professionally, making money - but at the end of the day, it was just "we produce nothing of intrinsic value" I think it depe

> I was like "yeah, im doing well professionally, making money - but at the end of the day, it was just "we produce nothing of intrinsic value" I think it depends on what you work on. For example, I once created a small program to split some file for my mother. She uses it every day at work and saves ~30 minutes of manual work. It's a source of pride for me. She can use that time to work on more substantial things, maybe come out of work earlier sometimes, and in general avoid some mind-numbing work. Many people use computers these days, and by being programmers we have a lot of power in our hands. You can reason that saving a bit of time will amount to nothing in the end, but it usually generates lots of positive feelings.