Eric Siu argues generosity isn't about giving everything away. A surgeon charging $40,000 for life-saving surgery can be generous because they're offering valuable expertise. Generosity is emotional labor and a mutually beneficial exchange, not self-sacrifice.
Generosity is often misunderstood. Generosity is not give everything away. Generosity is expending emotional labor to do things you don't feel like to help somebody in a transaction that is mutually beneficial. You can charge a lot for things that are generous. If the surgeon says, I'm going to do heart surgery that's going to save your life compared to the other surgeon who hasn't trained the way I have, and it's $40,000, that's generous because they could put that effort into something else.
