I'd say it goes beyond than building physical or virtual things. I'm talking about something that resembles compound interests, where you build knowledge or experience over previous knowledge and experience such that in some years you are way ahead of where you are now.
I'm basically saying that the high churning we have now does not give you enough time to build significant experiences that you can use later on in life, and, as such, it's the opposite of a good investment to the future. It is almost as we are only living for the present status, forgetting that on the future we will have less patience and energy to have to "re-learn" almost the same things.
