> And don't forget one of the biggest benefits of all... actually making something useful rather than spending your most important years working on how to get people to click a button or stare longer at their screens to enrich your employer.

Yeah, the only way to make something useful is to work for the government agency that has a wikipedia article about their human rights violations [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...