Thanks for the answer. I spent a lot of time overthinking that question for my own personal reasons over a long period of time.

I read a book that said that video games were unproductive. That was many years ago. I wondered why they were unproductive if they made people happy. Now we see gamers making millions of dollars playing video games on youtube and I've seen one of those youtubers say they feel really productive about it. I wondered it the author changed his stance on it because it's a money maker.

That led me to wonder if it's money that makes something productive. Or if it's something tangible. Or if it had to be accepted in society.

On the flip side, it can't just be enjoyment because then nothing would be unproductive. Watching TV, surfing the internet, listening to music. But are those really unproductive? You can make money from each of them if you do it enough or find a way to monetize it.

Perhaps I'll start a post on it to get other people's opinions on it. I wonder if that would be productive. :p