Well, the world is all about money everything is about money people need money to survive, so i think the very best thing to do is to work or do work to make money not just doing work for nothing, it is normal as human we need work that we earn the most because we need to survive for good.
Money is everything but money is not life though I completely understand what you meant, in this era no one works for free, we individuallly have bills that we must upset so why would we consider working for free, it is not ideal in the first place to even think towards that end, inflation is hitting very high daily so everyone has to get something doing to get paid at the end of the day to be abke to adapt to the current world economic system, for me I don't see it as a bad idea for someone to say he wouldn't work for nothing, yea it is very good to work for something in return, it is only a foolish person that'll think of doing something for nothing, as a matter of fact, I don't even think that such people even exist presently, the large population of the world currently believe in survival and I strongly have this mindset that for people to believe in survival, being idle or doing things that wouldn't fetch them money at the end of the day woundt be an option, I think this is factual.
Every day that passes by, don't give your time to something that yields results at all. Even if there are things you need to give in quality time and space to grow and mature, there is every possibility that it won't be successful in the end. Just like you said earlier, inflation increases every single day. The more you don't make money to settle your bills and make good financial choices, the more it gets pilled up for you.
Most of the companies that we see today go about saying they want to grow the company so for now money will not be paid untill the company starts receiving a particular amount.