[andromedaworld]

Shouldn't something at the very least be important enough to you for you to pursue it? You then project how many people would be impacted by your work and prioritize what to pursue first.

Also, another way to look at it is to empathise with other people's daily challenges and use your skills to come up with a solution that makes their lives easier and at the same time makes you richer because you take a little compensation from a whole lot of people.

Edit:

> I'm not anywhere near anything that's actually important.

If you're getting paid, you're likely doing something important. People do tend to like to hold on to their money.

[projektir]

I think that's what I am trying to say: I don't see anything worth it for me to pursue. Which is why I am curious what it is that you think is so important that you think it's worth pursuing, because I see nothing of the sort.

> If you're getting paid, you're likely doing something important. People do tend to like to hold on to their money.

No, just no. You are committing the error of putting too much faith in the ability of the economic system to capture value. The economic system does not capture value well. All it does is measure scarcity vs desire.

Online casino developers are basically doing harmful work and can be paid quite well.

Social workers, paramedics, etc., and other groups of people doing legitimately important work are paid little, and mothers are paid none.

According to the current economic system of value, oxygen is worthless, as well.

I thought this was honestly obvious and I'm alarmed at your implication that the system's conception of value can be at all used to measure importance. The system surely measures something, but it isn't that.