Most people aren't capable of taking quite that long a view. It is very unlikely that anything you do in a video game will persist more than a few years, let a

Most people aren't capable of taking quite that long a view. It is very unlikely that anything you do in a video game will persist more than a few years, let alone beyond your death. If you do things in the real world, there is some chance of a legacy that persists past your life and affects people after you're dead, whether it be kids, a house you built, a book you wrote, or whatnot. Ultimately, yes, all our works are but tears in the rain. But if you take that view too long and too hard it's easy to sink into ennui and just let yourself wither away; why bother?