Great thoughts. I've also always been fascinated by the choices people make in careers. There are some professions that are almost exclusively concerned with creating new value in the world. There are others that focus on taking value that others have created and consuming it directly or moving it around. There's a whole continuum in the middle.
The problem I think is that many people only think short term and hence focus on taking value, they feel they start giving they wont be able to take. Where as people who focus on long term know that if they give value now, in the long run in will come back to them in multiples
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 13.1 ms ] threadSounds like a whole new blog post of it's own.