OP seems to believe that people avoid going into valuable, practical work because it's too demanding, or because it doesn't pay enough. Yes, the roads in Seattle are full of potholes, despite the wealth of Amazon. That doesn't mean that every Seattleite with a trowel and an asphalt bucket is in a position to do something about the problem. Has OP failed to notice that this sort of matter is controlled by enormous bureaucracies, and that the average member of such a bureaucracy--to say nothing of the average citizen--has hardly any power to effect significant change? Or accomplish anything that they can look back at and say, with satisfaction, "I did this?" It's not unreasonable for people to expect that sort of satisfaction from their efforts, and it's not totally unreasonable for them to look for it in the arts, video games, etc.
