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You can work hard and be successful at something that's not particularly economically valuable. I happen to enjoy writing software and people happen to want to pay for it but most people's lives (see TFA) consist of doing boring bullshit they hate 40h+ out of the week just to put food on the table. It's an awful waste of human life.

When you have money, you can pursue anything you want indefinitely. Even if it takes you 20 years to become a great painter or writer or bass guitarist, there's no pressure along the way to quit and get a job as a barrista to pay rent.

>I'm very tempted to advise you not to have kids because of your weird views, but I won't, because I suspect you are actually just testing out your views to see what other people think of them.

You have good perception, that's definitely part of it :)

Honestly, I never remember caring whatsoever as a child whether or not my parents spent time with me. I didn't have anything in common with them anyways. A credit card and a new Benz on my 16th birthday, however, would have completely changed my memories of what could have been the best years of my life but which were instead wasted indoors on the internet because I couldn't afford to do anything else.




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