Quote Originally Posted by Furious View Post
Your parenthesis contains the entire crux of the argument; your time has intrinsic value in that doing something means you aren't doing something else.
That's a calculatory cost however, not a real one. Which leads to fun results:
Let's say you have two activities. A brings in a net 1 gil. B brings in a net 3 gil. Both require the same amount of time/effort/materials/PropertyPlantEquipment/whatever

In reality, you gain 1 gil every time you do A and 3 gil every time you do B. But if you account for opportunity cost, you are actually losing 2 gil every time you do A, because you could have done B with that same effort instead. That means that even though you are gaining money at a steady rate, you are making calculatory losses. These losses however do in no way compromise your ability to gain money - You can keep amassing them indefinitely, because you are still gaining money in reality.