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My comment was not meant to participate in the free vs paid discussion. That's indeed a whole other thing. Your question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. D

by smhg 11y ago

My comment was not meant to participate in the free vs paid discussion. That's indeed a whole other thing. Your question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. Doesn't that imply you spend a large part of your day doing something you don't like just for the sake of making money?

bsaul 11y ago
why do you assume me asking for money means i didn't like doing it ? i'm asking for money because i think what i'm doing has value not because i didn't like doing it. And the fact that people like it so much they're ready to pay for it makes it even more enjoyable to me.
- smhg 11y ago
  I understood your question as a description of this situation: the combination of you/someone having a constant desire for "more money" and the other party turning you down by default. That sounded like a sad cooperation to me. For you/someone: the other party is never interested in an constructive cooperation/dialogue. For the other party: you/someone sees the work itself as second (or less). But as I now read you enjoy it by itself, I misunderstood.
forgottenpass 11y ago
Your question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. Doesn't that imply you spend a large part of your day doing something you don't like just for the sake of making money? What world do you live in where businesses exist to advance humanity and people work on things they like? I'd really like to move there. The world I live in, only a handful of companies believe in their feel-good mission statements and it's a luxury for someone's passions to overlap with an obtainable well paying job.
- smhg 11y ago
  I hope the same as you. At least in the one where the goal is to have people work on the things they like. Both parties benefit from this, no? Just to be clear: I'm not expecting everyone to always be able to work on what they like. But as _a goal_, it sounds better to me than making as much money as possible. You'd always take a better paying job over one which overlaps with your passions?

by smhg 11y ago

bsaul 11y ago

why do you assume me asking for money means i didn't like doing it ? i'm asking for money because i think what i'm doing has value not because i didn't like doing it. And the fact that people like it so much they're ready to pay for it makes it even more enjoyable to me.

smhg 11y ago
I understood your question as a description of this situation: the combination of you/someone having a constant desire for "more money" and the other party turning you down by default. That sounded like a sad cooperation to me. For you/someone: the other party is never interested in an constructive cooperation/dialogue. For the other party: you/someone sees the work itself as second (or less). But as I now read you enjoy it by itself, I misunderstood.

forgottenpass 11y ago

Your question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. Doesn't that imply you spend a large part of your day doing something you don't like just for the sake of making money? What world do you live in where businesses exist to advance humanity and people work on things they like? I'd really like to move there. The world I live in, only a handful of companies believe in their feel-good mission statements and it's a luxury for someone's passions to overlap with an obtainable well paying job.

smhg 11y ago
I hope the same as you. At least in the one where the goal is to have people work on the things they like. Both parties benefit from this, no? Just to be clear: I'm not expecting everyone to always be able to work on what they like. But as _a goal_, it sounds better to me than making as much money as possible. You'd always take a better paying job over one which overlaps with your passions?