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Your trees are not someone else’s trees.

Is someone who climbs snowy mountains for a living (but who loves working on spreadsheets) trading too much of their one lifetime for money?

Different things enrich different people’s lives.

Can you not imagine that what you call “work” is the experience that gives this person enrichment?

To be honest from what I can see it seems like you are the person with a narrow worldview.



    > Your trees are not someone else’s trees
I never said they were; only that life is short -- find your forest. Quoting myself:

    > Had they already experienced everything good there is to experience in this one lifetime that they were so bored of it that they would prefer to work instead?
And I'm pretty certain that forest isn't exchanging your limited time in life for money. I'm giving concrete examples, not exclusive examples.

Touch grass, my friend, and find your forest.


You’re changing your tune pretty quick here and have artfully dodged essentially all of my questions.

> I'm pretty certain that forest isn't exchanging your limited time in life for money

A simple question — what if your forest happens to hand you money back? Are you still “pretty certain” of this?




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