Let's break this down. Utility: The quality or condition of being useful; usefulness. [0] for its own sake: if something is done for its own sake, it is done

Let's break this down. Utility: The quality or condition of being useful; usefulness. [0] for its own sake: if something is done for its own sake, it is done for the value of the experience itself, not for any advantage it will bring [1] If something is useful, it exists because of the advantage it will bring. The two things are antonyms. Think a bit more next time you try and dismiss someone offhand with a clever sounding quip. Just because a quip sounds clever does not make it so. [0] https://www.wordnik.com/words/utility https://www.wordnik.com/words/utility [1] https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/for-its-own-sake https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/for-its-own-sake