An alternative view on things: EVE online taught me more about commodity trading than anything else, because I didn't have the cash to sink into trading and I

An alternative view on things: EVE online taught me more about commodity trading than anything else, because I didn't have the cash to sink into trading and I was able to understand concepts that were only weird and theoretical in the past. Factorio is a great fun game that also involves the fun parts of programming. Would I be programming if I wasn't playing factorio? No. I'd be watching a mindless show. Meanwhile it does teach debugging and monitoring to young engineers, and has gotten quite a few into programming. And as /u/VincentEvans correctly mentions, how much of our smartest is wasted just making trading engines that do NOTHING other than help the wealthy gain more cash, and hyperoptimizing ads!