nah .. should die. He doesn't want to work. Why should you keep on going if you don't want to contribute at all? He tries to re-frame work sure, as so many in this line of thought. But it's really just turns into a childish disconnect. Do what you love? Sure! .. but if it doesn't contribute some value to society, what do you expect to exchange for food or fuel? Why not just lay down an die?

It wasn't directed at you. You're doubling down. I'm guessing it's because your personal identity is tied up in this philosophy somehow? Maybe you hate your job?

I've taken two sabbaticals in my life:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/leaving-full-time-jobs/

It really cleared the mind (and cost a lot of money), but I eventually came back to my career (since I couldn't make anything else work). It's not even about realizing the value of my work, so much as using work (my value to society) to gain money, to use on the more important things (friends and family).

...but you gotta work man. At the most primal level, you have to hunt .. and if you're advanced enough, you farm (which is a massive risk btw over hunting). If you don't work, you die. I don't understand why that's so difficult to understand? It's only in an opulent society do people even have the luxury of saying, "Why should I work?" because they have no notion of where their means of survival comes from.