Ask HN: What's the point with so many stupid people in the world?

Have you ever tried to sit and write code in a bar? It's nice. It's a hell of a lot more conducive to creativity than working in an office cubicle. You got your drink, you got your smoke. You sit at a table with wifi and a plug and you're invincible until about six drinks in. You look out over the patio at the mountains and you think...this is what life's all about.

Then at about 6pm the soccer game starts. Suddenly, the owner of the bar comes out and unplugs your laptop, turns on the TV, and cranks the volume up to 7000000. Even though there's no one there. You say, "Man, that's too loud." And he says, "when they show up, that's what they're gonna want."

Sure enough, about 3 minutes before the game starts, the patio goes from empty to packed. People are trying to move your table, your laptop bag. Then suddenly they're all staring, slackjawed, at this stupid TV that's blasting the same shitty commercials it was showing yesterday, last week, last month.

HN readers, I'm sitting in that bar right now, trying to write a piece of code that crosses a Quaternion with a euler matrix. Why? I'm an alcoholic. My girlfriend has a massive infection, and I'm stuck in a tourist town until we can travel again. Why? Because I smoke. Because I won't work in an office. Because I hate doing anything on anybody's schedule other than mine.

Every night for a week, my nice quiet place has been invaded by British YOBs that just scream and howl at the soccer game on TV as if it means SHIT. They're all here on vacation, and their flight cost about 30 pounds. And you know what? I finally understand what it means that there are too many people on Earth and nothing to do with them. If I had to watch any two of these people having sex with each other, it would probably fuck me up for the rest of my life. What do you do? You can't kill them.. you can't make them work more than 50 weeks a year... my GOD man... could anything be a bigger waste of AIR???