You're right, I should've said he was working, just not for money. Your post seemed to be about how you enjoyed working, and how he was being condescending towa

You're right, I should've said he was working, just not for money. Your post seemed to be about how you enjoyed working, and how he was being condescending toward that, and that's why I mentioned that he was also working. You like running a business, he likes writing. I thought the condescension in the author's post was more towards getting validation from buying material things and basing their sense of self-worth on that, and a criticism of that part of our culture, not so much toward the idea of people working for money in and of itself. But that's a very fair point you make, about the need for validation, and how people get it from a job.