Classist nonsense? Greed? &quot;Smacks of Entitlement&quot;? Your language has been negative and insulting and I am highly offended. Your attitude is against HN rules.<p>&gt;A sense of purpose. The feeling that what you do matters. The feeling that at the end of the day, you&#x27;ve accomplished something. Something worth giving 1&#x2F;3 of your life towards.<p>You truly think that&#x27;s all people want? Most people with jobs do not work on something they consider meaningful. To do so means they ARE LUCKY. If that&#x27;s the case why are they working? What is the factor that is satiating them when the job provides Zero meaning? Salary. You&#x27;re essentially claiming most employees aren&#x27;t &quot;real&quot; because they work for money instead of meaningful work.<p>You know those quants at wall street who spend their days building algorithms that trade meaningless paper stocks that contribute nothing to GDP? They do it for half a million dollars annual salary, not for a job that matters.<p>&gt;You&#x27;re hiding your greed behind classist nonsense. You don&#x27;t want a sense of purpose, you just want that paycheck to keep getting bigger.<p>I&#x27;m not even really hiding anything. All people want more money, including me. You&#x27;re trying to paint me as some &quot;greedy&quot; person because I want more money when wanting more money is NORMAL. We are all imperfect creatures and we all want more money. To openly deny this desire means you are a creature of utter moral perfection and I question your honesty and the existence of such a creature.<p>What I really want is this: More money AND a sense of purpose. Isn&#x27;t that what everyone wants? All you want is a sense of purpose and minimum wage. Ok, good for you.<p>&gt;You are very probably already in the 1% of top income earners in the world. Being that that cutoff is $34,000&#x2F;year, it&#x27;s not hard.<p>Your numbers are loaded like the rest of your argument. You need 500,000 annually to be in the top 1%: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;what-percent-are-you&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;what-percent-are-y...</a><p>&gt;You should be focused less on fighting those with more than you, and more on working with them to do things that matter.<p>Who are you to tell me what I should do or what I want? You do not control what satisfies an employee. Majority consensus defines this concept not you telling me what I should do.<p>Also note that no employee ever really works &quot;with&quot; the employer as you put it. To do so means you get an equal piece of the pie. Hence the usual term is &quot;Employees work FOR employers.&quot;