One reason that people limit their own learning, or choose to study something they don't like instead of something they love, is because they can't see how to properly monetize it.  It would be a lot of fun if this episode told you how to make money in your sleep so you can pursue your passions, but that's beyond the reach of anyone who isn't making money off of the listener in their sleep while they pursue their own passions on the listener's dime. No, this is about how our grade system, our economy, and our social construction has left the idea of intrinsic value in the dust ages ago. Recognizing it, getting it back, might let you be free even without the money.