>>It's a valuable reminder of what extraordinary people accomplish.
>>They are rare, but we have to be ready for them.
Meanwhile lets not insist that extraordinary (sic) achievements are something anybody might achieve, if only they would strive for a change. There's credit in regular work done with loyalty and competence and the pay ought to be enough to at least match prosperity enjoyed by parents if not exceed it, as used to be the goal for most First World communities- that our mission was for the kids to live longer and better than we, because of the world we prepared for them.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
