And yet it is Wall Street where the majority of the users on HN are compensated - entrepreneurs or technical experts working for a startup that gets vc funding

And yet it is Wall Street where the majority of the users on HN are compensated - entrepreneurs or technical experts working for a startup that gets vc funding in the hopes of succeeding through a public offering to Wall Street or a sale to one of its clients. How many of us really do/can work for the sake of the work itself and not for the promise of the payout?