To be frank, I completely disagree, and I get the feeling that so do most people, actually.  We don&#x27;t call it &quot;work&quot; because it&#x27;s pleasant and fun.  I see this as someone who finds his job genuinely engaging and almost, though not quite, a benefit to society, and whose alternate career paths would potentially involve more benefit to society and even more engagement in my work.  My job would actually be fun <i>if not</i> for the unpleasant necessities involved in treating it as <i>business</i> that <i>actually has to ship a product some day</i>, which is of course exactly what makes it at all useful to society and not just a shared team hobby.<p>Of course, the alternate career path would also involve significantly longer hours for significantly lower pay (ie: going back into academia), which brings us right back around to the point that it&#x27;s called work because you don&#x27;t like doing so damn much of it.<p>Also, it really would have helped to segment out the statistics by income and education levels.  Remember, the arithmetic average of a power-law distribution <i>does not make sense</i>.