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Look Mr "Super CEO" you're loving your job because you had an idea, took the risk, and through a mixture of good execution and luck-based-timing and/or access to external financial help succeeded.

Congratulations, you're one of the lucky few who managed to earn good money from their obsession. Seriously well done.

Your employees are not that. They're there to collect a salary and paid time off in exchange for their labour under the veiled threat of financial (and possibly medical) ruin if they don't.

The paid time off is necessary so they don't go mad from sacrificing a third of their life doing unfulfilling tasks 80% of the time (if they're lucky).

"Well if they aren't as obsessed as I am about this job, why don't they leave and start their own thing?"

Because:

1. Most people aren't passionate about things that could produce a livable wage if they did that full-time and therefore don't live to work, but work to live.

2. Even if they could turn a passion into a start-up business or self-employment, there's a myriad of other factors, e.g. risk appetite, financial position, people depending on them, previous traumatic experiences with low or zero-income, that inhibit them from taking on a massive gamble like this.

3. The current capitalism based economy would be unable to support everyone acting as basically an independent contractor offering goods and services. Organisations need to be formed to carry out more complex products and/or services. That's even without considering necessary public sector roles.

Get your head out of your reality-shielding arse and stop inhaling your own hot gasses.