Exactly.

No. It's very much okay to just do things because you enjoy doing them. Surely not every single thing you do in your life has meaning, but it might have meaning for you.

What's the point in dropping a strange negative comment like this anyway? Are you unhappy that others are happy?

I doubt trust fund babies would spend their days hacking an old NES game.

No idea of who would do it though. My best guess is young-ish brilliant engineers in the beginning of their careers, before they've taken on too much responsibility at and outside of work. Those who still have a lot of excitement for the field with a lot of time on their hands.

> Coz the rest of us are too busy making a living

Bar some exceptions, most people are not that busy (including me and likely you). They just lack commitment.

I feel sorry for you that you have no spare time outside of work, but work on yourself and try and improve the system instead of shitting on other people's projects or making assumptions about their situations.

Focusing on the concept of deriding, or at least, minmizing, the thought intesnsive hobbies of trust fund babies: I think rich people doing weird (neither productive nor malicious) hobbies is great. That's where some of our most powerful and foundational mathematics and scientific tools came from. e.g. Newton, Raleigh, etc

Ask any parent how much time they had free (and didn't realize) before having kids. It's quite interesting how much time we have free and not really realize.

Not saying that work doesn't take out a very big chunk of it, it does. But we still have more free time than sometimes we realize.

What we many times lack, is perspective and commitment.

Some of those “hackers” are twelve years olds, so earning money may not be the most important thing for them.

Some people are just unique. I have met a few people (not many) who have endurance to work all day, and spend hours on more techy stuff at night. I can live that schedule maybe once a month without burning out.