It IS a strict trade-off. The very definition of work is time I spend doing something that someone else wants me to do instead of doing something I want to do. I only do this because our capitalist society demands it. The goal of capitalism is to escape capitalism by having enough money to spend 100% of your time on what you want to do, and I have not yet won at capitalism.<p>Jeff Bezos, who has won at capitalism, by definition, does not work at all. He spends all his time doing what he wants to do. He never spends one second of his time doing what someone else wants him to do, unless he also wants to do it.<p>The balance is that I always try to spend the absolute minimum time working and the maximum time not working. If Jeff Bezos wants to work, I'm happy to have him do things I want him to do, that he does not want to do, for 40 hours a week every week.