Re: What good are we? As poker players, are we socially responsible?
A friend and I have discussed this matter on several occasions. The closest comparison to the poker-playing profession that he came up with is being a stock market daytrader. We decided that as a daytrader, your usefulness is basically limited to providing liquidity to the market. As a poker player, you provide entertainment.
I think the comparison is quite fair, as both games are negative sum games. Either way, whether it's liquidity to the market or entertainment value for others, we decided that they are both pretty poor ways to BS your usefulness to society.
No offense to daytraders and poker players, of course. My friend is currently trying to make it as a daytrader, and thanks to poker I can type this out on my 20" LCD.
Sometimes you need to find meaning in your full-time profession; that's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.
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