For me, venting is absolutely essential. It's my greatest source of motivation. Once I can clearly identify and describe flaws which I see in the system which a

For me, venting is absolutely essential. It's my greatest source of motivation. Once I can clearly identify and describe flaws which I see in the system which are holding me back, I can start to look for alternative paths... At the same time, venting helps to raise awareness of systemic flaws; it increases the probability that the flaws will be fixed at some point in the future. So if I vent about some issue today, there is a chance that it will be resolved in maybe 20 years from now... So if I managed to keep working for 20 years straight, I will be among the first in line to benefit from the system being fixed because I'd have been waiting for that fix for so long and keeping tabs on it. For example, I've been venting my frustrations about the fiat monetary system for years while being involved in crypto. I'm just building software while at the same time waiting for the monetary system to get fixed so that my work has a chance of becoming relevant. I'm also benefiting from mainstream crypto projects (not my own) acting as an 'alternative path' since they benefit from the flaws in the monetary system due to the wealth concentrating forces of centralized money-printing. Unfortunately, my own projects cannot benefit from the current fiat system because me and my community are socially too far from the money printers... Though obviously, the Bitcoin network is very close to the sources of freshly printed fiat...