Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)
by amrocha on Saturday November 09, 2024 @10:36AM
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No they’re not. A “salaryman” earning millions has financial independence in 5 years maximum if they so choose.
Most people are forced to work or starve. These are not the same.
Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)
by avereveard on Saturday November 09, 2024 @11:52AM
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> has financial independence
well yeah the dream is not the salaryman lifestile, but the financial independence, thanks for agreeing with me
Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)
by amrocha on Saturday November 09, 2024 @03:43PM
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The “salaryman lifestyle” necessitates low wages. It’s a “lifestyle” because you can’t quit it. You make barely enough money to sustain your family, so that you’re forced to keep working against your will.
If you’re making millions of dollars, you’re not a salaryman. You’re making a choice to sell your labor, but you can always quit and the impact to your livelihood will be minimal.
Building something that is bounded to the marked at large and can weather the individual change of whims is increasingly harder as megacorp are capturing more and more value in every corner of the market.
The entire mechanism that elevated the working class to entrepreneurship is broken and the effects do include a working class increasingly repressed, at ever income bracket.