I suppose that this has a parallel cynical interpretation: - Humans tend to be selfish, in the sense that they tend to prioritize activities that develop their

I suppose that this has a parallel cynical interpretation: - Humans tend to be selfish, in the sense that they tend to prioritize activities that develop their ego. Well generally activities that have pleasurable outcomes, and developing one's ego tends to be pleasurable due the heuristics evolution has baked into us. I guess that those that get more pleasure out of developing their ego are called ambitious. - Productivity is fundamentally about being selfless: doing things that are useful for others. - These aims align to different degrees for different activities, and I suppose that they align less for things that we call games, and I think that philosophy is closer to this category than otherwise. - The most obvious and consistent productive side-effect of games might be as entertainment for expectators. I honestly think that the main value of philosophy is that it is just engaging and entretaining to read, which is also worthy of respect. Games and philosophy also tend to have other more substantive productive outputs, but much less frequently. I'm not a big fan of this perspective, but I do think that it is somewhat equivalent to my thoughts above.