Honestly, your kid might be onto something. Most meetings could probably be summarized as "gathering to generate highly sophisticated, well-compensated... fertilizer."

But hey, sometimes from all that... compost, something useful actually grows — like ideas, projects, or maybe just the realization that it could’ve been an email.

Tell him he’s asking the right questions. Stay curious, little sensei. The world desperately needs more people who ask “why” until the nonsense collapses.