The other reality is that if you expect nothing, you will get nothing. If you expect low salary, you will get low salary no matter how hard you work or what skills you have.
Working hard on itself does not bring rewards. Asking for what you want and negotiating brings rewards.
Perhaps it is, but I believe it's important to fight off any feelings of pride or narcissism.
The only variable I can change is myself, and thus I recognise that every single mistake or failure is mine and mine only. I believe that's the healthiest outlook on life that one can have.
Also, I think too I don't have any right to say what I'm worth - my worth is determined by how much my labor creates value for others. If I'm paid peanuts, that speaks badly of me.
The point is that, by default, you're not paid the value you create for others. It's not pride or narcissism to recognize that in a capitalist system everyone is out for themselves. If YOU aren't out for yourself, no one is.
Do you think he would feel the same if the government split apart Nvidia and forced them to either sell the software (CUDA) or hardware as separate companies? After all, it's not like he has the right to run his company at the detriment of society. Opening up CUDA would be a massive net gain to humanity, or at least allowing more open source software to run on Nvidia hardware.
This is just an extremely tone deaf article from a billionaire.
This is a really terrible message to put out, especially where once upon a time America truly tried to make a "great society" through new deal programs and civil rights advancement; but nowadays the political climate is trash, largely thanks to the elite class rat fucking it into submission.
I mean, I have no idea what he would say or how he would truly feel about that happening.
But the philosophy he is espousing here is not incompatible with that. If he truly and successfully adheres to it (a big if!), the right response would be to feel that he had no expectation that the government would never step in to split up his company, and instead feel only appreciation that he was able to build and run it in the form he wanted, and to enjoy its profits, for as long as he did.
It's a very hard philosophy to actually adhere to! It's pretty natural for humans to feel entitled to the good things they already have, even when they know they shouldn't.
Working hard on itself does not bring rewards. Asking for what you want and negotiating brings rewards.