And yet there are orders of magnitude more cars than olympic athletes, and most olympic athletes struggle to make much money on it.

So, sure, there will be space for some human achievement for the sake of it, but, most fewer and fewer people will make a living off that.

Olympic Athletes are the fruits of our labour. They are what things like money and cars are for.

	▲	jacquesm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd say JS Bach was one of the fruits of our labor, so were Newton, Einstein and van Gogh. Olympic Athletes are a combination of luck in the genetics department and a lot of effort, but ultimately do not seem to be sufficient to help the athletes themselves.