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This is a good conversation to have. I'll go ahead and be the dissenting voice just to keep it interesting.
Last night one of our toilets finally failed. It was a cheapo that came with the house. I have already swapped out the other two myself in past years. It was a foul job that I hated. This time I am paying someone to come and do it for me. I know how to do it. I've done it before. But I'm not doing it again.
I paid someone to landscape our yard. His crew came in and planted trees and bushes in gopher baskets, ran all the irrigation and sprinkler systems, put down weed matting. I also know how to do all that and have done it before. Never again.
"Doing" changes over time. "Doing" does not always equal manual labor. I started a company once that employed highly skilled engineers. I worked 80 hours a week but I never "did" anything. My employees worked hard as well even though they were sitting in front of computers.
The hours I spend working is not "doing" as per this thread, but it pays a hell of a lot better. When I stop doing what I do, I want to relax. So I pay others to "do" things. Why is that bad? It keeps them employed and gives me leisure time and thus happiness. Sometimes I spend my free time watching TV, or rebuilding the interior of my car, or building a shed or drinking beer and playing guitar. They are all equally fine because I do them for fun. They are all "doing" as far as I'm concerned.
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