That all depends on what you do. If you have a specific skillset, and your talents and work ethic are obvious to your managers, you can end being mostly self-m

That all depends on what you do. If you have a specific skillset, and your talents and work ethic are obvious to your managers, you can end being mostly self-managed at your job. However, if you have no skills and work a job where your raw output is all that matters, managers will breathe down your neck trying to get the most output out of you as possible. These get-rich-quick schemes prey on those unskilled workers. They promise a world where you have no boss, only work a few hours a week, and make enough money to afford whatever you want. It preys on people's fantasies, and their lack of understanding of how successful people get where they are. If you want to escape your cubicle farm and get a job where you don't hate your boss, teach yourself a valuable skill and seek gainful employment using that skill. But don't ever expect that there's some magic lifehack that let's you stop working and make enough money to afford every luxury you ever wanted. Just because there are some examples of people doing that doesn't mean anything. For every Bitcoin millionaire there are ten Bitcoin bankruptcies. Yet all people have to do is wave around "This is the next big thing", and gullible people will swarm it in hopes of getting in on the ground floor. There's big money in FOMO.