Okay, bake me 100 of your best cakes by tomorrow morning, and watch me flush them down the toilet, or alternatively, throw them in your face, depending on my op

Okay, bake me 100 of your best cakes by tomorrow morning, and watch me flush them down the toilet, or alternatively, throw them in your face, depending on my opinion of their decorations. Now let's continue with this arrangement, every day, for 5 years. Your response might be "Please pay me enough, and of course I will." or "Hey, you paid for the cakes, what do I care?" So, how much does five years of your life cost? Is that what developers make? What else would you throw five years away on for that money? Would you rob a bank, and do a five year prison sentence for the same amount? At some point the trade between effort and wasted time gets negotiated by qualifiers. These kinds of things do start to matter, eventually.