Someone said to me, if you look at all activities that have the potential to make you vast amounts of money, what you'll find is that the people doing them are

Someone said to me, if you look at all activities that have the potential to make you vast amounts of money, what you'll find is that the people doing them are people who are very motivated by money. It's not that the good guys at stripe selflessly accept devoting their lives making society better even tho it's boring, they're doing it for the money. I don't see how "smart" or "boring" enters here at all.