The notion that simply pretending to not understand that I was making a value judgment about worth is an argument is tiring.

The few problems humanity has that need to be solved:

1. How to identify humanity's needs on all levels, including cosmic ones...(we're in the Space Age so we need to prepare ourselves for meeting beings from other places)

2. How to meet all of humanity's needs

Pointing this out regularly is probably necessary because the issue isn't why people are choosing what they're doing...it's that our systems actively disincentivize collectibely addressing these two problems in a way that doesn't sacrifice people's wellbeing/lives... and most people don't even think about it like this.