Don‘t take it personally, you might be right in your extreme position, but this feels like a horrible take on what it means to be human.

I hope you count "stimulating our minds for either learning or imaginative purposes" as one of those outcomes because if you only count "work produced and kpis met" as an outcome then that sounds pretty bleak.

"If" is doing an enormous amount of work here.

> Learning to read, learning to write, learning to think, only have value because of the outcomes they produce

Only have economic value maybe.

Humans have more value than just whatever economic crap they produce