[konschubert]

But see, that's my point. How can you or I find joy in building a better database or whatever if there will be nobody to use it in 100 years?

[mirimir]

OK, so let's say that you really care about this. Maybe consider what could you do about it. Instead of building a better database or whatever.

[fredsir]

I don’t think it matters as much if what you do in actuality ends up making a significant difference. What matters is that you did what you could. From the perspectives of future societies, you and I will be blips anyways, so that’s irrelevant. But how can one be contempt with knowing that they didn’t try to make a difference, and that their mark on the world disappears when the energy has left their body and their corpse has been burned and buried, I do not understand, because if you don’t (try to) leave anything of value behind, your existence is practically for nothing, except for maybe even a net negative.

[mirimir]

I agree. And I did spend a decade on it. But now my main focus is online privacy and freedom.

[heurist]

Joy is a mental process that has nothing to do with anyone outside of you. The fun is in building, thinking, designing.