Originally Posted by sdsearch

By comparison, many people at least appreciate and understand that I collected miles/points in various ways and used them for all sorts of vacations I might not have been able to afford otherwise, but they're generally not interested in doing "all that work" themselves. (And it is a lot of work to learn how to do it correctly. If you do baby steps, you can spread the learning out over a long time so it's not so much at once, but to get from nowhere to where you or I are quickly, it's a lot you would have to learn quickly.)