| Woah, it seems like you feel very strongly about this subject, is that interpretation correct? Why is that? I feel like statements such as >games are not important are very unfair. Same with your assumption that a game developer will be I guess a capitalist slave? What about indie developers? Crowdfunded developers? Dwarf Fortress? Some indie games that have exploded, off the top of my head: * Flappy Bird * Shovel Knight (crowdfunded) * Divinity and Divinity 2 (crowdfunded) * Stardew Valley (single developer) * Minecraft (was a one man passion project) * Terraria > I know we all here love code, but objectively speaking, it's not the best thing in the world What gives you this perspective? Speaking as someone who has tried art/literature, I think it's a false narrative that the "starving artist" is happier because their work is more "fulfilling" or something. I tried that, and yea I loved my art and I loved pursuing it, but it didn't pay the bills, and I still had to have just a regular job to keep it up. A sales job, keeping me at a healthy but relatively insignificant 40k/year, limiting my travel options and forcing most of my time to be spent sustaining my ability to eat and pay rent. Then I discovered programming - still a creative endeavor! I can work for a company, freelance, work from home, work much better hours, and at that paygrade I could afford to get solid savings that grants me the confidence that I can retire at some point to pursue my writing full time, if I want. As for medicine, my conversations with friends who have to put up with 10+ years of medical schooling at massive costs only to suffer through 60-80hr workweeks and claw their way up the medical ladder have convinced me that that path is not something I would like to entertain. |