Well, not that I approve of the practice, but you could find site logins that the email is used in, breaches that it's been in (potentially finding (old) passwords).
With that info, if not for identity theft directly, can be used for fishing and profiling.
I'm quickly going to create an AI named "No Gen".
Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don't you see the wrinkles?
This is a brilliant description; the feeling OP has is probably on a way more abstract level than most of the comments here are thinking of.
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If you have a whiteboard marker, you can draw over it and then erase it. Works wonders.
There have been studies that claim there is a max on what money can buy you in terms of happiness. Before it was said to be 70k (of course depends on the country), now it might be 500k.