[IggleSniggle]

That's the difference between people working for a paycheck and people working for a passion project. Even if 90% of the people working at a company are doing it for the passion and not the paycheck, they still have to contend with the other 10% who do not have the passion (but may be good at hiding this fact).

With a passion project, you start and stop whenever you want, and if you're not interested, you're not working on it anymore. So only the people who are truly intrinsically motivated will continue.

A paycheck is a form of compulsion. "You could be do anything, but you're doing this for me specifically because I pay you." You might also be very interested, but it's the only thing that specifically binds you to the company vs bound to the work itself.

[imtringued]

I don't get it. For me the biggest problem isn't the "ulterior" motive of the paycheck but rather that you simply don't get to work on exciting problems to begin with.

If you told me I have eight hours a day to work on this and I have to spend those eight hours a day, you will get a far better emulator than if I had to do this only on the weekends and I could quit at any point and that is how most personal projects end up. In some half baked state and nobody uses it.