“If you do direct work, the psychological default every day is to wake up and do work. You are surrounded by people who think the work is important, and whose moral values at least rhyme with your own.”
This is true for me, and true for many in richer countries sucha as the awesome AIM crew. In low-income countries though many if not most employees (especially in BINGOS) are there for the money and status in non-profits, rather than the value of the work. I know a number of Ugandans who have found this difficult when they cared about the work while their colleagues were just trying to weasel away as much money on allowances as they could while trying to unnecessarily extend projects to keep their salary going.
I think your major point stands, but direct work doesn’t universally come with motivated and encouraging peers.
“If you do direct work, the psychological default every day is to wake up and do work. You are surrounded by people who think the work is important, and whose moral values at least rhyme with your own.”
This is true for me, and true for many in richer countries sucha as the awesome AIM crew. In low-income countries though many if not most employees (especially in BINGOS) are there for the money and status in non-profits, rather than the value of the work. I know a number of Ugandans who have found this difficult when they cared about the work while their colleagues were just trying to weasel away as much money on allowances as they could while trying to unnecessarily extend projects to keep their salary going.
I think your major point stands, but direct work doesn’t universally come with motivated and encouraging peers.
Very fair, I’m definitely speaking from the perspective of a rich Westerner working with other rich Westerners.