I'm thinking you might have misspelled something here:

To give a concrete example: If a lawyer makes two hundred dollars and hour, but he chooses to not work today because he needs to clean his car. If the thought process behind that is saving the $40 dollars from the car wash place, he effectively lost $160 dollars.

Let's say the lawyer makes two hundred dollars an hour and it was mentioned that he chooses not to work today so he effectively lost $160.

Therefore I conclude that the Lawyer works only an hour a day. If not, the lawyer must have lost not only $160. 😁✌️