I get you. What people are doing now is questioning value: in themselves, and what they can create for others. I hate to always oversimplify things but we're pretty simple things to begin with:

Social creatures that share a common space, with finite time that nobody wants to waste.

> I hate to always oversimplify things

Every analogy works "only" at a certain abstraction level. No need to disregard oversimplification. This spawned the debates so all good.