Working without passion leads individuals to live long, boring lives that will never impact the rest of society, much like the scope of a machine's legacy. “Hire not a man who does your work for money, but one who does it for love” (“Life Without” Thoreau 9). Thoreau does not say that all men should or should not be millionaires who live in ways that others envy. Rather, he suggests that every man should do what makes him happy because an unprincipled life is not a life that anyone can sincerely enjoy living; even if it meant becoming a millionaire. Thoreau believed that everyone had different kinds of potential and that everyone should strive to fulfill their own