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I don't disagree that many people find personal satisfaction in their work, beyond seeing it just as a source of money. I do too.

Your point about time being zero-sum is a poignant one. Everyone wishes they had more hours in the day to spend doing things they like. But the question is about how we spend that marginal hour, and I think oftentimes it is better spent on family, friends or hobbies than our day jobs.

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I guess I didn't state this very clearly because it's kind of an uncomfortable thing to state, but what I'm saying is that I think for a lot of people, for a lot of the hours, spending that marginal hour on work actually is the less-regretted way to spend it.

But it's probably true that more people end up regretting that choice to spend that marginal hour on work for more of their hours that the opposite.

Time is the only currency

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