Perhaps it is that the word "rewards" was used instead of income. I believe this word was chosen intentionally, for gamification purposes, but it seems to have backfired and left everyone expecting something for free.
I'm doing well thank you. Spending the day with family I haven't seen in some time, so couldn't really ask for much more.
I hope you're doing well too, and happy new year indeed.
I've been rewarded in the past, on the job, when they gave me a raise. I had to work for that reward too.
It's this generation of participation awards and entitlement. This is quite the social experiment. Look at what we've discovered.
I'm truly sick of the entitlement culture, its destroying everything, there are less and less people able to create something of worth and out of that small percentage less and less could actually bother as 60 % of the reward will be taken and given to lazy non productive sheep who 100 years ago wouldnt even live past their 25 birthday due to natural selection and lack of welfare.
I agree with prety much all of this chain of commenters.