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by brianwawok 3085 days ago
"I was gonna write this world changing poem, but then I realized my kids wouldn't get payments for 70 years after I died so I just took a nap instead"
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"I was gonna write a world changing poem, and thank goodness I'm young and will make $ off of it for decades"

That's a perfectly fine motivation, from my point of view, but I'm contrasting it against yours, because why are we expecting older people to have more altruistic motivations than young people?

(poetry is a poor example because it's not very lucrative in general)