People need food and clothes. And hobbies.
Of course but you can do all those things and still have a job or do other deeds that are worthy of note.
I don’t understand. You’re building stores where people can buy the things they need. Seems productive to me.
For themselves…
What do you consider to be a meager existence?
What I consider to be a meager existence is an existence based on having a mundane job (or no job at all) and doing nothing to further the evolution of society/humanity as a whole.