Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
Competent people are the most resistant to change
The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.
If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.
We fail when we give up too soon.
Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.