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> If you need a purpose in life, get children.

Adding a couple more consumers into the sea of billions is more valuable than dedicating your life to science or art?

Do you have any idea what the average scientist or artist is actually doing? I'm not talking about Einstein or Picasso...

They are painting the murals that brighten the entrances to workplaces across the world, or researching incremental improvements to human knowledge that collectively form the foundation of the next generation of science.

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