>I understand that your primary goal is avoiding economic competition with people vastly poorer than you, but lets not lose sight of the fact that the economy a

>I understand that your primary goal is avoiding economic competition with people vastly poorer than you, but lets not lose sight of the fact that the economy as a whole suffers when valuable work doesn't get done. You aren't wrong. But one does wonder why technical professions must be maximally subjected to "competition with people poorer than them" while lawyers, doctors, teachers and government workers seem to exempt from such competition.