[whoisjuan]

Believe it or not, there’s people who just want to write code and get paid well. In fact I know more people like that, than those who are lofty about their goals.

He hints that’s the way he feels in this comic: https://goomics.net/309/

[CRConrad]

Isn't what he hints at here actually more that even he does have a limit where "the price of his soul" will exceed his compensation, and the job won't be worth it any more?

(And squinting at the dotted continuations of the red and green lines, looks like he even estimated when that time would come pretty well. EDIT: But yeah, maybe not all that amazing, since it was only a year or so in advance.)