Yes! I'd just be careful to assume that people who are smart enough to program aren't smart enough to knowingly do so. Competitions in modern times are nearly

Yes! I'd just be careful to assume that people who are smart enough to program aren't smart enough to knowingly do so. Competitions in modern times are nearly always an artificial construct. Who cares if you coast at your job as long as you do what you are paid for? There is no award ceremony at your funeral for having achieved a manager position higher than your neighbors. A competition only exists if you agree to take part in it and I am willing to bet that's usually a conscious choice. If you can provide for yourself and your family to enjoy the things you like - why introduce competition if all it does is annoy you? Some people just don't care about being able to afford luxury products because other things already give them fulfillment. Others need more money and/or more power to get a maxed out Tesla or a house in their dream area (or simply to stroke their ego). All is fine. There just isn't some sort of obligation to anything other than maybe the people directly around you (SO, kids, parents, friends...). Invest time in what you like. Life doesn't allow that to always be the same as your job.