As Ayn Rand put it:
But the truth of the matter is that one finds worthwhile men and women among people who work. Follow me here very carefully, forgetting the cheap generalities which all our modern minds have been stuffed with. I do not mean LABOR. I do not mean people who have to earn their living. I do not mean proletarians. I do not mean tearooms. I mean what you and I understand by the term of “competent people.” People who love to work, who are good at it, serious about it and concerned primarily with it. Bright, creative, productive, ambitious people. People who get money for their work, but who do not work primarily for the money - whether it’s a weekly pay envelope or a thousand dollar bonus. People who are ambitious - not to climb socially, not to get wealth or titles - but ambitious to do more and more work of a better and better kind. (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 208.)
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