I can confirm not everyone is out for profit at all costs, even in America
Definitely, I didn't mean to imply that every business in the US wants to profit at all costs, I just meant that the culture skews towards that. The US culture towards work tends to have a certain response to cases like one where someone has a popular product/service/business but would rather maximize work/life balance than income.
In other cultures, that's seen as much more of a reasonable choice than in the US, where the response tends to be more on the "I can't believe you're giving up tons of profit for more free time!" or similar.
No offense taken, I totally get it. As an American, I think we're pretty screwed up in our priorities, on many fronts. I hope we all (globally) can figure out how to slow down and work less! Life's too short to spend so much time grinding for money.
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Definitely, I didn't mean to imply that every business in the US wants to profit at all costs, I just meant that the culture skews towards that. The US culture towards work tends to have a certain response to cases like one where someone has a popular product/service/business but would rather maximize work/life balance than income.
In other cultures, that's seen as much more of a reasonable choice than in the US, where the response tends to be more on the "I can't believe you're giving up tons of profit for more free time!" or similar.
No offense taken, I totally get it. As an American, I think we're pretty screwed up in our priorities, on many fronts. I hope we all (globally) can figure out how to slow down and work less! Life's too short to spend so much time grinding for money.