She made over $200M in salary over four years. Her risk was zero.
I can see no analog here for anything a normal human being would recognize as a challenge despite tough odds.
I can see no analog here for anything a normal human being would recognize as a challenge despite tough odds.
Hell, give me $20 million and I'll take that risk.
Competitive, successful people like winning more than they like money, otherwise people like Larry Ellison wouldn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the Americas cup.
Yo'ure no doubt right, but when a majority of society is told to accept that money is "food, shelter, and a decent existence" to most people, and "points in a senseless ego game" to a few, things have gone badly off the rails. Those differences in perspective tend to be resolved violently and badly.