Question? Answer!

Question: Why do serious people receive so little attention and go under-appreciated for their work?

Answer: Because it is simple people that lack foresight or ambition and seek to have fun every present moment that are so alike in their lack of focus that they can hold a conversation on any general, unfocused method of enjoyment who tend to group together, being so similar in their laxness and ease of comprehension of the topic of conversation. As such, fun-loving, outgoing people tend to receive much attention, while the serious ones who do not like to help unfocused individuals such as the former tend to stick to their own way of doing things and end up so disconnected from the General Thought that their conversations tend towards alien topics that few can comment on. Both have their trade-offs; the serious ones has more control over his/her general direction in life, as well as being able to learn more about the world, while the lax ones tend to have more friends who will offer them help, despite trading control for merry.

In the end, the attention and appreciation the serious ones are missing out on is the attention given by the merry people. Better for these serious people to stick to a minority their own variety.

Of course, I, being a manipulative and power-hungry person, am totally biased towards serious and individualistic.