@NinjianaJon Protagonists of the culture tend to be bored (or occasionally disillusioned) with the life of ease the culture offers, and are generally outliers, especially when picked up by SC.

That said, if people don't have anything to do, and doing nothing isn't a luxury, people find things to fill their time. They do weird and interesting stuff for hobbies and push themselves because they can. And some aliens think it's weird, but the culture mostly thinks of it as' what humans do'