I don't think it should necessarily be said that a person who chases money, chases wealth. Trying to aquire an excess amount of money is a form of chasing wealt

I don't think it should necessarily be said that a person who chases money, chases wealth. Trying to aquire an excess amount of money is a form of chasing wealth yes (which the author is mainly addressing). But to say that spending Time making money is somehow not an ideal trade off is pretty nonsensical. Surviving is pretty important. And thus having food, water, clothing, and shelter is pretty important. Should we all grow and prepare our own food? Sew our own clothes? Build our own houses? Society as we know it has made survival, in its raw sense, pretty trivial, so long as we align ourselves (more or less) within the system. I don't see how that's necessarily a detrimental or even less-effective/efficient/optimal use of ones life, regardless of whether or not how you make your money is "truly one's calling". "If your calling in life is to be a musician, what are you doing wasting your life as a store clerk? Isn’t your life more valuable than your job? Part of walking in who you are is being bold enough to throw away the parts of your life that aren’t valuable, in order to chase after what is." Surving is a waste of life? Survival is not valuable?