Quote Originally Posted by ElHeggunte View Post
But then maybe I'm one of those people who cares more about the experiences leading up to the rewards more than the rewards themselves.
The rewards are symbolic. People who run an extremely tough triathlon and get rewarded or recognized for it generally wouldn't be too pleased with the idea of that same rewarded just being handed out or sold to people who never ran the race in the first place.

Should the Olympic games just start selling gold medals to whoever will buy them? If only the 'experience' or 'journey' matters then all those athletes shouldn't be mad, right? They'd still train just as hard? They should be just as happy with their earned gold medals even after the entire world gets flooded with them, carried by non-athletes just for show, yeah? They wouldn't feel their medals are cheapened in the slightest?

Just because it doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean you can project that mentality onto others and expect them to comply.