Comment by JumpCrisscross

> where your comfort and security are your first concerns and taking risks, doing something new, is not even on your mind?

Because individually, lots of people seek low-risk high-return occupations. Systematically, that doesn’t exist in the long run.

Societies do better when they take risks. Encouraging the population to integrate that risk taking has been a running them in successful societies from the Romans and Chinese dynasties through American commerce and jugaad.