>There’s not a day goes by on HN that I don’t see stuff that fits this mold.

Surprised this didn’t smack me in the face when I first read the post. This very site does indeed serve as a bit of a counterpoint.

How could we compare and contrast effort and apathy across time, apples to apples? Maybe comparing farmhands or authors… e.g. the average reception of authors’ works vs. length of writing time

(bad example, maybe someone has a better one)