Therefore social gratitude is an essential component of any goal and thus it is not correlated with lack of sincere motivation
That doesn’t follow. Degree of sincerity and degree of social gratitute may well be correlated. The fact that motivations are seldom pure doesn’t change that. It just makes the relationship more grey.
I don’t make a difference between seeking social gratitude and having a goal. In my view, sincere motivation is positively correlated with seeking social gratitude.
You can make an analogy with markets if you want: social gratitude is money, motivation is work. If something is worth doing, it will deserve social gratitude. In my view, the author here appears to be complaining that we are working for money and not for free...
That doesn’t follow. Degree of sincerity and degree of social gratitute may well be correlated. The fact that motivations are seldom pure doesn’t change that. It just makes the relationship more grey.
I don’t make a difference between seeking social gratitude and having a goal. In my view, sincere motivation is positively correlated with seeking social gratitude. You can make an analogy with markets if you want: social gratitude is money, motivation is work. If something is worth doing, it will deserve social gratitude. In my view, the author here appears to be complaining that we are working for money and not for free...