[tomkarlo]

"What a boring, pathetic, self indulgent existence to never participate in creating something of value."

Please don't make broad value judgements about other people's existence and value systems, based on a single HN comment. Thanks.

It's only "rational" to place more value on the final result if it is objectively of higher quality than the alternative where someone else makes it. Hence my original comment. I made no comment about any side-effect benefits from doing it yourself.