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Originally Posted by jfound
I agreed with op on people who spend 40+ hours/week on a game year after year is not living his life to the fullest. There are so many things in this world that is better than playing a game, like the beauty of nature etc. It's okay to play a lot of poker but to play 10+ years of the same game imo is wasting ones life unless you need to pay for rent food etc. If you have a million dollars and still play to make another million, you have a bit of an addiction. I know cause I use to an addiction when it comes to poker, played 40+/week for 10yesrs. I now understand there are more to life than making 1million dollars. I personally use to spend lavishly but now am pretty broke but have been the happiest I ever been since I overcame gambling addiction. I still play a few times a month but there are more to life than grinding poker for a living if you have a nice bankroll. I'm not saying don't grind poker if you need to make money but if you have money go outside and enjoy life instead and try to help the world like what op think is best.
My 2 cents coming from a retired pro.
It boils down to your own values. These three things are constantly offered as self-evident truths, although they are really not.
1) We have any obligation to 'humanity'. Pathological altruism horse****. Go move to Sweden and blow 3rd World refugees if that's your bag but it doesn't make you a 'better person' and it certainlly doesn't make for a 'better world'.
2) That wandering around on a beach or in the woods is the apotheosis of life. Horse**** again, for many people. It might be the best thing in the world for you but others are much more happy in a dank casino or a Berlin brothel, railing out sad Romanian whores .
3) That poker is a 'waste of time', thus implying that there's a value differential when it comes to our time on this earth as if our lives have some sort of inherent 'meaning'. We don't. Here shortly, everyone reading this post will be dead. Your parents and everyone who knew you will be dead. There will be a new crop of delusional *******s who too will soon be dead, but live as though they had any 'meaning' beyond eventually becoming fossils beneath a headstone or a jug full of ashes.
Your time on this earth is best spent doing whatever the **** you want at the moment, because that moment is all you really have. If you're compelled to play poker, go do it. If you're compelled to hop in a Panzer and go storm Poland, fine. We're talking monkeys on a rotating dirt-ball orbiting a star that will eventually start burning helium and consume us and at that point, it will be as if we never existed at all... no more Mona Lisa or Mozart or Mount Everest. We become forgotten to all of time and space... and it doesn't matter.
This is where we live.
You "wasting time" ******s do not grasp the scale of your own existence. Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0