Being told "professional poker doesn't contribute to society."

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If you get down to it, 90% of all jobs provide bs unneeded services. Anything other than scientific research, food and shelter production are kind of unnecessary.



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Police. Firemen. Doctors. Nurses. Teachers. Bankers. Soldiers. Electricity companies. Phone companies. Gas station attendants. Taxi drivers...etc...etc...

If you add up all those necessary services I bet you get pretty close to 90% of all jobs. I think you greatly overestimate the proportion of professions that are useless.

And even if your figure of 90% was right, it still doesn't make poker pros any less useless. We're back to the "Jobs X and Y are useless, so its OK for me to be useless too" argument again.