I wonder whether there is some non-obvious signal involved in claiming that your work is the meaning of your life. A possible hypothesis: “the rich do what they want, the poor do what they must”. The more money you have, the less you are constrained when choosing your job—you can afford to choose based on what you like, as opposed to having to take whatever allows you to survive. The extreme case would be a trust fund kid, who can have the job tailored to his or her hobbies. (Maybe not literally “Playing Minecraft LLC”, but at least something related; for example producing or distributing computer games.)
I wonder whether there is some non-obvious signal involved in claiming that your work is the meaning of your life. A possible hypothesis: “the rich do what they want, the poor do what they must”. The more money you have, the less you are constrained when choosing your job—you can afford to choose based on what you like, as opposed to having to take whatever allows you to survive. The extreme case would be a trust fund kid, who can have the job tailored to his or her hobbies. (Maybe not literally “Playing Minecraft LLC”, but at least something related; for example producing or distributing computer games.)