Wow - the fall colors are gorgeous. (Yes, I got distracted from the moral of your story!) I see your point, but I think human nature makes it hard to keep working for one’s own satisfaction over the years only. Otherwise, socialism would’ve been more successful.
I think what I was trying to say is that just as we have lost the stigma of bearing children out of wedlock, stigma of being rude to others, we have lost the stigma of doing work poorly.
If you have read “The Road to Serfdom”, I think you would know you are on the right track...people forget...