Don&#x27;t you find it alarming that the only motivation you have to work is so that you can afford to not have to work m-f 40+? What are you going to do if you fail to &#x27;create value&#x27; (read: create something that is successfully monetized) and you&#x27;re looking back on years of your life that you didn&#x27;t spend more w&#x2F; yourself, family, and friends in your little free time, instead giving yourself for the success of a startup? How will you feel, seeing others do little and earn hordes of cash due to being on the right side of automation or being in the &#x27;right&#x27; networks?<p>Wouldn&#x27;t you prefer to be free to work for things that <i>you</i> think are valuable... not in your free time, y&#x27;know, the time that should be for yourself and the things you love?<p>What&#x27;s up with all these weird open source folk, working hard to create value and giving it away for free, uplifting for all? I hear this linux thing is pretty cool. It&#x27;s almost like we can capture productivity in code and then copy it endlessly for practically free and everyone benefits. How are these people motivated?!<p>Maybe we should pursue this cooperation thing... who am I kidding. It fails every. single. time.! Right?