They'll fire you.
Their relationship with you is extraction at the foundation.
Once the extraction costs exceed the marginal cost of switching extraction locations, the switch is inevitable.
It's cute of him to say that when his work output is going almost entirely directly back to him (through his prestige gains, increased wealth, etc) and his work output is being leveraged by orders of magnitude by the employees, and contractors, and service providers, under him whom he's trying to maximize extraction from.
His work is his life, and his work/life is being leveraged by others.
If I weren't so numb, I might actually be cynical about it.