This forum is amusing and philosophical.
Interesting musing: if everyone played Chess (let's say for an hour a day) what would the world be like? Would "wasting" such time make the world worse, better, more unified, more intelligent, neither.....(dumb question)?
George Bernard Shaw put that idea into the mouth of a character in a novel. The character, Edward, who says it is shown to be a bore and a fool. So the idea isn’t something that Shaw is claiming that he believes. In Shaw’s novel, “The Irrational Knot”, Marian is quoting Edward, who is wooing her. Marion says that Edward hates chess, and thinks chess “is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.” Marion then plays a game of chess with another man. She eventually dumps Edward -- the bore who won’t play chess.
Having to go to work interferes in my chess games but work pays the bills