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If you are tired of making someone else rich, you could start your own business. But that’s a lot of work, and as someone who is anti-work, I don’t think that’s possible for you and your comrades. But the option is there!

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Like all movements, there's more to it than just the name - don't take it too literally: working for myself is the ultimate goal! And if I ever do find success enough to require employees, I could never imagine asking them to spend 71% of their week thinking about me and my problems. Maybe it's easy to daydream egalitarian - but I think we as a society can do better for each other.

A perusal of that subreddit is full of a lot of anti-capitalist propaganda and some obvious logical fallacies. I don’t think consuming that subreddit is very healthy or productive.

Many of us work 40 hours in 5 days. There are 168 hours in a week. That's 24% of the week, not 71%.

I assume they're excluding sleep, which isn't unreasonable in this discussion.

Still no. 8 hours of sleep a day leaves you 16 hours a day, so 112 hours a week. 40 hours is 36% of 112. And, yeah, you could throw in commute time and get a higher percentage. It still wouldn't get you 71%, though.

What skersten did is 5/7 = 71%, as if any day you work on is totally lost to you for any other purpose.

It’s not just hard, it’s unlikely to be successful because of how rare successful businesses happen.

Working 4 days a week at a stable successful company isn’t the same as starting a new business so that eventually you can work 4 days a week.

Then maybe the bosses & investors for those few successful companies deserve their profits after all.

Agree with your point well enough. I think a 4 day work week where bosses get the same amount of profit is the dream conclusion to this experiment.

They are so unlikely, everyone else that didn't make it feels entitled to tell them how to be successful.

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