The trick is he never mentioned what that time is worth. All he said was those few years of life was worth a few years, which were limited and finite.<p><i>If we wanted to be arbitrary about it, we could pretend that a janitor&#x27;s time is worth a trillion dollars per hour because said janitor&#x27;s time is a finite resource that can never be recovered. However that doesn&#x27;t do much for you when you have to actually decide how to pay a janitor.</i><p>It sounds like as a serial entrepreneur you like to decide how to pay janitors, because you can buy a few years of their time for a relatively low cost that you can turn into wealth for yourself.<p>When a janitor is working, he isn&#x27;t working for $4 an hour or whatever it is you pay him. He&#x27;s working for the rent &amp; the food that will keep him alive, so that he will have time to continue to living, and that time is valuable to him. That&#x27;s what he&#x27;s getting paid, and that&#x27;s why he&#x27;s willing to work for you for $4. Just because it costs you nearly nothing to hire some people for an hour doesn&#x27;t their time is worth only $4. It&#x27;s worth a lot more than that. $4 can buy enough calories to last for days, and that time will be spent with his friends, family and his children(? possible if in India), and that&#x27;s called &quot;intrinsic goods&quot;, something money alone can never buy, because money only buys you time to acquire those goods.