The money in Elite doesn't really mean anything other than opening up access to more ships etc. And, I know plenty of people who have way more money than I have, but that doesn't affect me in the slightest. I love Mining, but... as a proffesion in the game, it pays way too little vs the time you spend. I do mining for the activity, not for the money.I couldn't care less what other people do in the game to earn money. I have done some of those Smeaton runs, but the mode switching was more like 45 minutes in order to fill up the passenger bins, and then the travel. Sure... I earned 150-160 mil, but it was more like 80 minutes of quite boring gameplay. To me it is not fun; that doesn't mean that I then should sit here and point fingers at those that find it fun.I am now out in the Pleiades to help rescue Civillians and that gameplay is a lot more fun and with my passenger Anaconda, I earn about 1 mil / trip...