The seven billion people who share our planet

The seven billion people who share our planet have seven billion different answers to the question “why are we here?” My answer, personally, is “to transform, bit-by-bit, any source of human happiness into a product to be purchased.”

Enter the Snowball Maker. Someone found a niche that was unexploited (the two hours people spend outside every winter before returning inside til March) and created a plastic gadget to fill that niche. Those were two hours we spent with our family and friends, buying nothing, enjoying each others’ company, creating memories. Now we can buy a gadget for that fun.

This is why I think that if aliens know there’s life on Earth, they’re not landing here, on purpose.