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After a few years working in academia, I have a simple statement:

That which pays thy bills is the real world.

It can correspond to another statement: that which feeds thy mouth is the real world, too.

I can't eat virtual bread. It's not the real world.

Funnily enough, there are people who either supplement their living expenses or entirely earn their living expenses by selling EVE currency for real money. The actual number of people who do this is disputed, but it's been a well known fact among EVE players for a long time. So, in a way, their real-world bread is on the line if EVE changes significantly enough to destroy their source of income. It's a weird situation.

Sad life if your entire world consists of bare survival.

Certianly worth revolt, of course, if your first life is a horror.

But to then argue that anything other than that life is not worth struggle is a blatant denial of value of anything above bare survival.

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