The thing is, in my experience nobody really wants to be an employee, because to be an employee is to be someone who has to sell their time for a wage. What people really want who want to own their own businesses and set their own hours is to own the means of production - to own their own labor. This is not some fringe phenomenon, it's the story of human existence in the modern world.

That said, this guy sounds astoundingly entitled and probably does not realize that every person working weekends in retail is thinking the same thing, but doesn't have the money to pursue it.