" Money doesn't mean so much to me. It has never been a prime motivator in my life, for anything. Not in some harder periods in my life, and now even less so ..., and so, the peanuts that can be earned here wouldn't be worth my while. That's not why I am here.
I care about other things. " - These words touch me lots 😟 you are the exceptional one.
But Money is of course a motivation. But everyone cannot be treated the same way. We know that each human psychology would have different aspirations and when an organization is an assortment of many such varieties.
Money is important for someone who has a need of survival however, there could be a need of knowledge, power, and larger aspirations, professional and linked up personal goals and money can surely not play any significant role there. It could rather backfire.
Thank you, you probably mean this as a compliment, but I don't think I am exceptional in that regard. I have met enough people for whom money isn't the prime motivator.
Why?To accumulate money and look at it? Spend time with it? Talk to it? :)
People don't want money, they usually want the things they think money will get them.
Survival in society...., you mean that, yes?
It is still possible to survive without money as well, but only if you are completely outside of society.
People who don't depend on society and society's rewards are harder to control, so that is one of the reasons why that sort of life is being transformed into more and more of a challenge, and made to look less and less appealing.