You can surely find edge cases everywhere when trying to classify the entire population of the industrialized world into two groups.

What about the 10 year NVIDIA employee who held on to every stock grant and bought at every opportunity?

They play a game for a living. Their labor provides only indirect economic benefit in providing entertainment. They are also simply waiting to officially join the second group once they retire at a young age.

Most professional athletes in the US go broke 3-5 years after they retire.