Exactly, I despise these articles. I will never believe they are anything other than propaganda to trick people to want less money from work.

Oh so this guy is starting a company. Is there any chance that perhaps he cannot afford to pay people $500k like he was making. Now I guess he has some intrinsic motivation to promote lower pay so he can hire people to work for him cheap.

I'm sure some subset of people are intrinsically motivated by money as a high score. I'm extrinsically motivated by money. That's nice too.

You fool! Not starving or freezing is an extrinsic motivator!