And of course, some people think they can create and engage in "disruption of old-line industries" for many of the same reasons.

See other reply.. I wasn't talking about creating products, sigh. Quit putting a dollar sign on every thing on the planet!

Thank you for crisply explaining something I've realized for some time, but have never been able to boil down to a single sentence.

I was looking for a fitting quote by Erich Fromm (whom I kinda should give credit for "my theory", I'm pretty sure I pieced it together from stuff he said), couldn't find one - but it seems that his book "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" might be worth a read :)

That's what creators tell themselves anyway. More likely this individual had a more concrete and financial reason to do so.

This individual is not all individuals. Purely destructive trolling exists, even by intelligent and outwardly successful adults, a hundred times fold in Minecraft - and in some cases not even seeking attention applies because of anonymity. Which is no problem for sadism: seeing the reaction is enough.

Creating can mean a lot of things.. it basically means doing something constructive, hey, even daydreaming or just curiosity. For me there is either progress (doesn't have to be anything big, it doesn't even have to be your own, as long as you have the ability to be happy for others), relaxation (ditto) or frustration and the compensation for it... but any talk of "creators" is entirely yours. You don't seriously think I was trying to claim I was never a dick in my life? Hah, I wish.