sure. and helping your neighbour build his shelter is relateable and social. but somewhere along the way towards "build a distributed, scaleable and beautiful mvp app for this useless service, so we can flash the vc and get a good valuation so our stockoptions are worth more when we decide to close shop" it got wired

Doing those things, as needed, for yourself or your immediate community is very different than performing the same task on a factory line for 70 hours a week so that a person you've never met can earn more than your yearly salary playing golf with the board members.