It feels like I am leaving some sort of legacy, no matter how small, and that makes my existence a lot more meaningful.
Did you exchange a walking part in a war for a lead role in a cage? –Pink Floyd
[1] https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/pink-floyd/wish-you-were-he...
"Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc.)—and particularly its financial avatars—but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value."