I view this all on a much more fundamentally human level. You figure out how to survive and how to be desirable as a mate fundamentally (however you define that

I view this all on a much more fundamentally human level. You figure out how to survive and how to be desirable as a mate fundamentally (however you define that success, social acceptance, admiration, status, cash, etc) then indulge in the other things (the curiosities). And then people weight priorities differently. “Scaling” is a proxy for that first bit - making money.