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this is precisely why I said your view of the real world is impoverished! if this is all the "real world" is for you, then you win
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Let me put it to you this way. I STILL enjoy playing video games (although not as much as I did in the past). I play them for my own sake. But I know full well that there is no "real-world" benefit from me doing so, and in fact, plenty of "real-world" costs (i.e. they cause me to waste ridiculously massive amounts of time that I probably should be spending on writing publications).
Now, maybe that internal psychological enjoyment of my video game playing is actually a "real-world" benefit. I don't know. But all I know is that it certainly doesn't help me in doing what I ought to be spending my time doing. And certainly, I doubt that I will earn a higher salary just because of all my gaming.
Similarly, embarking on rigor for its own sake probably does create some internal psychological enjoyment for some people, but probably isn't going to be rewarded in terms of a higher salary. That's what I mean.