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Because we'll all be dead soon and I want to have achieved something great with the short time I was given on this planet.



If you don't somehow make something useful, or built a thing people actually use, then what was the point of it all? To have fun and then be forgotten?

Though, with AI looming to take this last shred of human dignity too, maybe having a bit of fun along the way isn't such a bad idea.




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