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Why stop there? Imagine what we could achieve if we didn't "waste" resources on anything that was purely for entertainment, e.g. most movies, lots of facebooking/instagramming/twittering, restaurants focusing on making food that is more than bare sustenance, etc.

Of course, what then is the point?

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Instagram isnt hard to build compared to game engine. Making food is not the same as highly skilled engineer. Drinking in a bar doesnt make you a scientist.

They're both hard to build, but require different skillsets. Moreover, game engines are often customized in unhygienic ways by folks early in their career. Maybe it's better these inexperienced folks run into the problems with their own unmaintainable code firsthand before they take on world-critical problems.

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