Yes, spot on. I don't think I'm that much of an idealist, but you've got to have at least some idealism or no-one would ever do anything.

And as for the "fools wasting their money", let me invoke the great George Bernard Shaw:

> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."