I believe making a living while helping others ranks on top of maslow's hierarchy of human needs
( pyramid).
By helping, I mean really helping, as in empowering people.
A prosecutor may think he's helping (petty) criminals by throwing them into jail.
Prison is at most punishment for the crime, never help. Sometimes fair punishment, most times unfair. This is drifting a little OT here, but I have to say it. Seen on some TV reality-channel: a lawyer of an executed death row inmate (ex-man?) couldn't find anything to say to his surviving relatives other than "life is unjust".
Speaking for myselef, Perl
gave an infusion of wizardry to my otherwise mundane, laic person.
I feel like I'm the guy with the coolest tool box on the construction site.
Now I wear my hat with some sort of ... pride -- is this the word?
Not too much, I haven't yet finished the Camel Book (though I went through your Llama book and did all the exercises :-) ).
I feel like I'm absobing Perl like a sponge in this stage!
To put it all in one utterance: magic flows, pours, oozes, is absorbed. it is a fluid.
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