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This is something I have questioned myself, in many many places there are extremely talented young people who are doing impressive, labor intensive work which i
by constantcrying 2y ago
This is something I have questioned myself, in many many places there are extremely talented young people who are doing impressive, labor intensive work which is completely useless.
On the one hand there is obviously immense value to doing useless things (almost everything I ever learned was from doing useless things) and I think it is impossible to begrudge them in any way. But again and again I see people who are doing nothing else with their immense talent and whose entire life revolves around a singular vanity obsession (video game speed running, as just one example).
Surely, there has to be some reason that these people won't/can't live out their obsessions in a way that both financially benefits them and society at large.
- awfulneutral 2y agoWhat makes you think they are doing nothing else with their talent? Lots of speed runners are just high achievers and are doing it on the side while they work through college. Some have built a career on speed running. Some do it for charity at GDQ. It is a thing mainly young people do while they have free time. It is also a good social outlet.
- immibis 2y agoWe've run out of useful things.
- constantcrying 2y agoThat's like saying we have run our of problems.
- immibis 2y agoMany of our problems are caused by the useless things we are doing because we have run out of useful things. Some wars, for example. We can't allocate more people to making things from scratch, so the excess goes towards stealing them from our neighbors.