The point? He could be putting his children through school and paying for his family's health care. The ability to operate solely in the top tier of the Maslow

The point? He could be putting his children through school and paying for his family's health care. The ability to operate solely in the top tier of the Maslow pyramid is a multiple sigma anomaly, not a fact of life. For many people "enjoying life" is knowing you've done all you possibly can to make sure your children will live a better life than you.