you are important enough for use to spend scarce and expensive time and resources on
I always love this. It acts as if everything someone does is driven towards a goal. Like every min of ones life is always doing something productive. This is the Lounge after all.
Eh. Even if we limit it to our entertainment and leisure time, *this* thread is still competing with *that* thread -- not to mention other forums, websites, TV shows, friends, etc. Time is the most precious resource we have -- Its near impossible to buy or trade for even a little of it back, even for the relatively wealthy (really, you can only outsource your own mundane chores, provided you can afford to do so). Mental and physical energy is a not-so-distant second -- again, if you're relatively wealthy you can outsource some of that too.
Not all our time is directed at a purpose (too often, it isn't) but nevertheless, how we choose to spend it has myriad competition.