Creating value

Why do you deserve a high-paying job where you’re free to explore the things you want to in a career field that is suited exactly to your preference?

I would contend that you don’t deserve that. None of us do. We may live in a historical bubble where that is loosely and generally the case, but it’s probably good if we don’t fall into the trap of insisting that we “deserve” that. It’s nice, and we can get it on some occasions, but it’s not a right.

Creating value is the name of the game. Can you create value and employ others? Or are you becoming another part of someone else’s machine?

In fairness, even the value creators are a part of a greater machine, but they generally have the independence in a field they love to a far greater degree than the average employee.

I have a theory that people who create value; whether physical, educational, or artistic, and do that in a morally-upstanding way, will be those who drive society and civilization forward.

Without getting into the arguments or ideas of what constitutes being morally upright, creating value stands firmly next to that as a way to ensure that you have some control, self-respect, efficacy, and good in the work you do.