Some good things, they fade

"Our hottest arguments were always about how we would contribute. We did not care about the rewards. We were young and earnest. We never kidded ourselves that we had the political gifts to reorder society or insure social justice. Beyond a basic minimum, money was not a goal we respected. Some of us suspected that money wasn't even very good for people -- hence Charity's leaning toward austerity and the simple life. But we all hoped, in whatever way our capacities permitted, to define and illustrate the worthy life."

-Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety (1987)

Doesn't this sound like it could have been written by Dave Eggers?