Nope, not really. Not so long ago horse manure on the streets was a real problem. Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel? Nope, we remember Henry Ford for making automobiles a mass product. Similar with bubonic plague vs. hygiene. Similar with bacterial illnesses vs. penicillin.

Every single example of a positive societal change benefited the person behind it. Martyrship, on the other hand, is the cornerstone of religious cults and third-world countries. A stable system where everyone suffers in the name of abstract greater good, while the handful of elites reaps the profits. Don't go that way, it sucks.

>Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel?

That's a problem with your education in history, not the reality of past progress or markets. Not to mention that your response has barely any relevance to the point I made.