I don't understand where you're going with your "region / culture" thing. The rest of your comment makes it sound like your standards are just lower than mine. You describe your work as mostly tedium and say you don't have a problem with that. This is a state of affairs I will never ever accept for myself.
And I'm approaching 40 myself and have been a part of this industry since the late 90s, so I'm not speaking out of youthful naiveté either, but rather from the vantage point of a conscious set of choices I've made on personal values and introspection into my own psychological needs.
The set of people who share such values/needs may or may not be a majority, but I never claimed they were. This discussion was originally on the broken state of open source, and my contention is that a lot of people who do open source probably do it because they're a little bit like me, frustrated with their day jobs, and looking for a way to contribute to the world in line with personal values that are similar to mine, and an outlet for unmet psychological needs similar to mine.
