Maybe the person just doesn’t care about swimming with whales or having friends? Does everybody really think the dense Amazon jungle is neat?
You’re projecting what you think makes life worth living onto someone else.
Can you really not imagine that for another person working is what they love as much as you seem to love climbing snowy mountains?
> Life is too short
I agree with this. It’s too short to think about how someone else is spending theirs.
If you're reading r/startups or r/entrepreneur, I suspect original OP drives some satisfaction and meaning from building a money-making machine themselves.
Not everyone wants to travel the world their entire life, and working is an experience in itself that similarly may not resonate with everyone.
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
> 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?
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?
You're missing the forest for the trees.
You have one lifetime on this Earth and it is a big place with many experiences and sights. Do not regret in the end that you exchanged too much of that one lifetime for money rather than enriching it with many experiences be it with family, friends, or even by oneself.