There are many families nowadays with 2 working parents and the children are in daycare or school. Yes, they earn lots of money, and once a year they go on a fancy vacation somewhere together. Sometimes they own a boat and go out on the lake a few times each summer. And then there are other families with one working parent, usually the dad, and the mother stays home to raise their children herself. These people can't afford expensive vacations to exotic places, but they take car trips and do smaller things as a family. Each of these kinds of people are doing what they think is best. Yet my first example hardly ever sees each other or has time to enjoy life except when they are on vacation. The second example is more likely to have time for fun along the path of life, but there is less money. I suppose it all depends on what matters most to people.