I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like.
I do not know where you took that from...
Most of the people (EU-based) I know that are bootstrapping their own (profitable, not dead) startup or service seem to be minded similarly, too.
I just make sure I have enough money to not have to think about money, so it actually gets out of the way.
I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like.
These two statements are contradictory. The whole point of having it is that it is stored value that can provide you with the things you actually need; time, in your case.
Similarly, I don't care much about H alone, but I definitely enjoy H2O!
However, if you did not have money, you would either:
a) Be comfortable living the most basic lifestyle humanly possible.
b) Be working so you can afford yourself the lifestyle you want.
Clearly, you are not in group A since you have a more than comfortable lifestyle, so it's B. You did contradict yourself.
Later you divide the whole humanity in A, B (and C). I certainly do not consider this is correct, and believe there are many more cases to be considered.
I cannot see what could possibly go wrong, going from here, in terms of deciding that people contradict themselves, logic, etc!
Feel free to consider I contradict myself - I certainly do not agree.
To which you replied (but edited later):
Okay thanks for pointing out exactly how I typed my
paragraph. Did you offer any sort of rebuttal? No. Stop
being a baby.
I'm now back to my regular schedule, arms uncrossed (I rarely cross them, mind you), actually. Have a nice end of day (sincerely).
In many cases I've found trying to monetize content makes it worse. Not always, but sometimes the right choice from an intellectual perspective is to improve an existing article somewhere else, whether by editing Wikipedia, or sending in corrections to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or sending a documentation-related pull request to a project on GitHub. The alternative, if I put monetization first, would be to always find a way I could "own" the content: it needs to be published on my domain, where I get the credit and SEO and personal-branding out of it, and can put AdSense or Amazon Affiliate links on it. Instead of fixing the Wikipedia article or the docs, write a linkbaity blog post mocking their errors, for example, and submit it to HN. Not as constructive, but many people do exactly that. Decisions that are good for monetization don't always magically align with non-monetary goals like improving publicly accessible information, and sometimes they're in direct conflict. In that case, I don't think it's necessarily laudable to prioritize monetization.
Everyone his hobbies. If your hobby can land you some money so you can get a roof and some food, then you're already a good way to becoming an happy man.
I love to build cool shit. My salary does not matter to me. Of course, it is fairly high so perhaps I have the luxury to say that, but if my basic needs were taken care of, I'd be just about as happy just building things in Ruby.