Comment Re:Not as bigger deal as it sounds if you RTFA (Score 1) 243
You are trying to equate a work with value. You think it has value simply because great effort was involved. I disagree.
If you should "suffer" it should be because that's what you want to do. And the reward is something you are proud of. If the reward is money, and that is the measure of your pride? Hrm... does anyone need to elaborate more on the folley? Could anyone who measures success in money ever be happy? Is there ever enough money for people who are motivated by it?
Here's a clue: Happiness doesn't come from that. It comes from comfort and peace and an ease from fear and pain... from a lack of suffering. If you SUFFER for happiness, you're doing it wrong.
People always spout stuff like that until they have a family to feed. Once you have no other source of income other than that which you earn by creating stuff you look at the world very differently. In my part of the world you need to earn a very good wage in order to afford enough space for a family with 2 kids, that only comes from earning roughly twice what most people earn or by having a mummy and daddy with lots of cash.
Since I come from a single parent family and my mother has sod all I have to earn every penny I ever expect to need in life for myself. That includes any money to send my kids to college, and hopefully one day for them to be as privileged as you sound.
Your right in that money doesn't buy happiness, but if you have ever tried to live and bring up kids without any and with the bailiffs constantly knocking at your door you realise pretty quick that it can certainly stave off misery.