[Nick Rivers]

Within 100 trillion years, all black holes will dissolve and protons will decay into positrons and electrons which, in turn, will annihilate each other, leaving nothing in the universe but a vast soup of photons, photons which tell nothing of the story of the universe's past. When that time comes, nothing that has transpired in the history of the universe will be known or knowable, including whether you made a contribution to society, or whether humanity ever existed at all, so who really cares if playing poker professionally contributes to society or not? I just care that it allows me to (a) not have a job and (b) still afford nice things.