why does chess exist???

no

I highlighted your hypocrisy.

What he actually said was

“I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.”

But he said that after he was educated. Not as an excuse not to be.

This from a boy who lives on his mother's couch.

It's a wonder how little you know about, well, anything.

Plastic was the result of a laboratory accident. Silicone was an offshoot of a totally unrelated development. Even electricity was accidentally discovered.

Again, don't flatter yourself. Because I search through the trash and stumble upon a roach does not mean I was searching for a roach. The difference between you and I is far more that 50+years. You have nothing but empty, baseless, negative, unsupportable opinions. I simply attempt to educate you with actual useful information that you could find yourself if you were less lazy.

Yes.

I taught digital computers in IBM in the 1970s.

Chess is Gouda. That's why it exists.

You seriously misinterpret my purpose here. I'm not out to show you up as how much smarter I am than you. I simply told you that pure science is the basis of just about every advancement you have in your life. Of course engineers designed computers but someone else had to first discover electricity and silicone and even magnetism. You claim these are worthless pursuits because you aren't interested in them. That's on you. Don't wish it on the world.

A BA in liberal arts in college is a basis for further learning. Everyone is not able or interested in STEM. Education is a broad basis of knowledge. Learning to think is part of it as is socialization in elementary school. People, in the USA at least, are free to choose a life for themselves not to have anyone else dictate it to them. Life is richer with writers, poets, composers and musicians, painters and farmer ( mostly farmers ). On a more practical level, there isn't enough work for 8 billion engineers.

Do you really think people like Einstein only studied STEM? He was a painter and played violin and also played chess. Enrico Fermi was a mountaineer. Wernher von Braun was also an accomplished amateur musician and composer. He could play the piano and the cello.

I'm not a philosophy fan either but that's subjective.

There was no hypocrisy. But thanks for the attack. Tells me exactly who I am dealing with.
The point was very simple: Education is great, but what we normally consider education (the form we get in schools which is 90% utterly useless after you graduate) is just a waste of time.

Now I feel like a contrarian, because I disagree again in this thread. 
Entertainers and artists are just as important for society as engineers and builders. A society is more than just nice roads and tall buildings. We live for more than to create, we also like to enjoy the presence, and the presence is way more enjoyable with people who know how to entertain us right. If we had no outlet, it would look like 1984 around here, and who would want that?
Life is not only about structure and function, but also about colour and enjoyment.
You can't just always read math textbooks, sometimes you need to watch a stupid, dumb movie, too. Or you'll just get burned out.
Einstein made the DECISION to paint and play an instrument. But he easily could have went to listen to football on the radio with the boys in the lab while drinking self made gin from test tubes. He could have spent his time watching films in the cinemas. There was so much to do in his time.. Sure, we have a little more today, but you pretend like ther was nothing to do besides violin and painting. But that is simply not true. 
Same as today. You can choose how you spend your free time, you can go and paint and play the violin. You could also just watch a film and browse youtube - it's up to you.

Forcing people who have no interest or aptitude in stem to either take stem or drop out of the system seems like a good idea to increase the number of mediocre stem professionals who can then create more negative work for the more competent to fix instead of advancing technology. Also you'll probably have less sophisticated literature, art and entertainment. 1 stone 2 birds.

Never underestimate the power of an unmotivated and unskilled workforce.

Training doesn't always produce the expected results. Ask any chess.commie.

Now you're just raging again because people make money doing what society likes to have them do (that's who pays them ) while you lay on mommy's couch whining about a world you can't understand. I tried to be reasonable with you but your attitude and lack of even fundamental economics is a waste of my time.

If your claim of 5 years of free college isn't pure BS and you took STEM why do you not work at 24? If you didn't take STEM you're just a lazy hypocrite.

Society never wants anyone to be millionaires. They don't want politicians to be millionaires saying they're all crooked, they don't like business owners to become millionaires saying they take it out of their labourers pockets and don't care for human lives, they don't like entertainers to become millionaires because playing an instrument or telling jokes is easy and anyone can just do it. The list goes on. 
Life is not fair, but if you don't even work then you don't have a say in this at all. We all have to contribute in one way or another, if you're not smart enough to teach or apply sciences, too boring of a person to be entertaining then at least go pick up a job and flip burgers for the rest of us. We all need to contribute to society, and everyone should do what they're capable of. Some people build the stages, some people stand on the stages. 
But if you're neither, you cost someone money. Either your mommy or the tax payers, who would rather see their money fill potholes and maintain public parks than feed a leech like you.

I like this.

because they needed a way to defeat my pp size

I was a business student during a career in computers. I later switched to history for a master degree and taught high school history. I worked while in school always. I even raised a family while in school. Life isn't come-as-you-are. It takes work. For you to have wasted five years of free college then chose to throw it away is pitiful. And now you want the world to change to fit you? Lord help the society that supports your ideas.

Freight trucking is the primary target of AI in transportation. In a few years your five years of wasted free college may help you change tires on the rigs. You are pitifully lame non-member of society.

So you would rather be scum of society than have a job. Interesting.