Why waste admiration on someone who has been very well rewarded for what they did? I'd rather admire people who acted out of altruism. A soldier dying to save

Why waste admiration on someone who has been very well rewarded for what they did? I'd rather admire people who acted out of altruism. A soldier dying to save his friends - nobody can give more than their life and nothing can compensate a person for losing it. That's an example of 'admirable' to me...or a doctor working for Medecins sans Frontiers.