I can understand about the 'greed' thing tho, as a younger man I was happy just to go with the flow as long as I had a board,a car and a wave. You know , I bought into the Woodstock dream, but like a lot of that generation, as time wore on I realised I didnt want to surf every day, and, as it turns out, I physically cant handle it every day and now I feel the need to look after my future, to provide for a slightly more comfortable time ahead. Age and squalor shouldnt necessarily go together, even if I did ignore all the signs, advice, reality.
Its much easier to keep the Woodstock 'feel' if you can afford to do it in comfort and also choose to do something else, and you need money to have choices. Thats the only thing Ive learnt about money, you need it to make choices. Without it , youre not going anywhere different or doing anything different, apart from looking, from outside the fence.
Im not greedy now but I can see that I need to provide for myself and family in a way that is not dependant on me physically doing 9 to 5 in an office or factory, to make a passive income, and a commercial business is a way to go.
Make a product that has a market, that is different, thats reasonably priced and that performs.
If youve got that worked out ,youre probably ahead of a lot of crap already on the market. And with any luck and some marketing nous, from that one product will grow an income.
With the likelihood of trickle down economics ever occuring or the old age pension being a reasonable amount, my desire to make money from surfing knowledge is not about greed but a necessity to look after myself.