Innovation often simply requires more investment (in both human and financial capital) than what a few-man show can handle. With only lifestyle business you'd

Innovation often simply requires more investment (in both human and financial capital) than what a few-man show can handle. With only lifestyle business you'd also exclude everything that has negative cash flow in the initial stages - except if you think another lifestyler can run a VC without relying on "the market". Seriously, there are a lot of things wrong in our society, but scalable businesses ain't one of them.