For many, we do what we do for work because it's what we would do anyway for free if we could. We get paid for that work because of all the irritating crap that

For many, we do what we do for work because it's what we would do anyway for free if we could. We get paid for that work because of all the irritating crap that is a real and largely unavoidable part of doing what we live to do for real. I love programming, and would do it for free if I could; what I get paid for is sitting here past midnight waiting for remote systems to validate an app submission while I try to get three packages to work well together when they inexplicably decide not to because an update to one suddenly has an aversion to seeing "#!" in another's file, and circumstances require I fix it right now regardless of the hour. We play "labor games" for fun because they are the idealistic of what we really want to do but without that irritating intrusion of reality.