Wow. I was expecting a critique on how a 4-hour week causes harm to your colleagues through your laziness. Instead, the article only tangentially mentions this,

Wow. I was expecting a critique on how a 4-hour week causes harm to your colleagues through your laziness. Instead, the article only tangentially mentions this, with no supporting evidence or arguments. And 90% of the article consists of absolutely nothing more than ad-hominem attacks on Tim. > The 4-Hour Work Week enshrines entitlement, providing an instruction manual for wannabe digital nomads: If earning a million dollars is too hard, you can just jet around impoverished countries where the dollar is strong (a legacy of colonialism) How on earth do you get angry at someone for suggesting living in a low COL location? Developing countries around the world are extremely eager to attract tourists/nomads who can inject money into their economy. And yet, the author would prefer that we shun developing countries entirely. Because colonialism. > See, a global economy can’t support millions upon millions of people jetting around the world and running businesses online. There will always be a sub-class of people working constantly behind the scenes, in sweatshops and kitchens, in order to sustain this dream lifestyle for a tiny few. The inequality is baked in. That’s where the private, selfish audience of one becomes so dangerous. We read books like The 4-Hour Work Week as if they were made just for us, because that’s how they’re written. Their authors are so far removed from the reality of normal people, they don’t even see us anymore. We’re rendered invisible. That’s what should anger us. It’s not that Tim Ferris found a new way to live and then wrote about it. It’s that now millions of “enlightened” bros all worship him and aspire to be like him, as if this is what our planet needs — more fragile white males with degrees from Princeton, and podcasts selling high speed internet. Offering people advise on how they can better their lives, is now an evil thing to do? Not everyone in the world can work in a white-collar job, and therefore, it is evil to help people pursue it? The author of this article genuinely scares me. There is no discussion of content here, no discussion about the consequences of certain actions, no consistent logical argument put forward. It is simply endless ad-hominem attacks, based almost entirely on Tim's demographics and career success. The fact that this is trending on multiple social media, instead of dying in a tabloid rag, makes me far more worried about the future of our society.