[almosthere]

It's the pay. The pay is so high that we've removed humility from our life. Everyone must treat us well otherwise we can flippantly ignore something.

Someone that starts out with a humbling experience first, has a different upbringing. The path, is to lower pay dramatically, make it on par with serving McDonalds fries.

[toomuchtodo]

Yep, you have to take a metaphorical beating in life to cultivate humility. Empathy helps.

We are, broadly speaking, not special; just lucky to get paid to solve puzzles that happen to have some value in the current socioeconomic configuration.