I'm pretty sick of all these "it's hard, so let's not even try to do it". I can't put myself in the head of someone who doesn't understand inspiration, passion

I'm pretty sick of all these "it's hard, so let's not even try to do it". I can't put myself in the head of someone who doesn't understand inspiration, passion, or dreaming. It seems so short-sighted. "Let's only do it once it becomes easy". Would they say the same about climbing the highest mountain? About abolishing slavery? About sailing the high seas? In my opinion I don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I say that this sounds like the kind of argument people would use to be pro-slavery because of the economy. Practical? Maybe (though in retrospect not). Doing the right thing? Absolutely not. To me shutting down these things is like dismissing the persuit of the meaning of life. Aside from the Apollo program being maybe the most return on investment monetarily in the history of humanity, I wonder what the ROI is on worker and entrepreneur motivation in addition to that. If we can put a man on the moon, then nothing is impossible. Every obstacle is conquerable. We need to know that science fiction is within our grasp, and we won't get there without taking any steps. If humans can put a man on the moon, then surely we can get this factory 10% more effective while improving workers lives? I bet at least one of the big tech companies would not exist without this motivation. "Humanity can't put a man on the moon, so maybe we should sell this 'google' company to yahoo". Google monopoly aside, without Google we may not have Hadoop, free email, or many other things. What's the ROI just in terms of having free email with more than 1MB of quota? Nobody gets out of life alive. Why would you aim low just to attempt to? Not saying we should take needless chances, but as people and as a society we do need to actually… you know… live.