“For a long time I’ve harbored the irrational fantasy of winning the Megamillions jackpot… In every scenario that I imagine my life were I to win, it includes me working. Perhaps not as a lawyer, but I would certainly continue to work in some fashion.”
That doesn’t answer my question: Do you think the people who have already made more than enough money to live on must continue to work?
“indeed working if (is?) far more important that learning, at least for the overwhelming majority of people. It’s a mistaken ideology to say otherwise.”
I cannot imagine how somebody could even say this. Working is a curse, necessary only so we have what to eat and where to sleep for our short stay in this world. But doing the mitzvos, and especially learning Torah, are why we are here in this world!! This is what Hashem put us here to accomplish!! The working should only be in order to be able to do more mitzvos, to be able to help others more, to learn more Torah, and to serve Hashem better!
But to glorify working as a an end inofitself, not just a means?! To say this should be what we are focusing on, how we should live our lives? And not just that, but to pass it off as a Jewish ideology?! Are you serious?!