This just really scares me that you can even think that. 10 years? Do you know what you could do in 10 years? When you start to feel that stress and anxiety building, and start suffering panic attacks out of nowhere in early/mid 20s... it'll because you've played RS for an entire decade and thus have nothing going for you in the real world. And what would make it worse is that you wouldn't have even started on anything... and you'll start to feel like the world just left you behind. These goals that you have are nothing but a delusion, and will absolutely come back and hit you hard in a few years if you don't get something meaningful in real world to start taking up some of that time... Something meaningful? Like flipping burgers? Lol. What is the difference, honestly? People usually don't choose their jobs for something that affects society the most. More than not, you'll become an insignificant worker who will work on selling some product and who can easily be replaced, even with that degree. Anyways, what is your opinion of trading stocks to support yourself? Merching irl could hardly be considered meaningful to society, but it is certainly an easier way to make cash on your own without that job. Or do people like you criticize people who do that, including on RuneScape? Would you go pick flax for 200 hours just to provide something to society instead of merching?