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> If you really want to work four hours a week, you have to outsource the rest of your labor to other people, who wind up working way longer and way harder. You
by Grustaf 5y ago
> If you really want to work four hours a week, you have to outsource the rest of your labor to other people, who wind up working way longer and way harder. You have to be okay with exploiting people, and you can’t really think about it.
I don't love Tim Ferris and the criticism of the book is pretty spot on, but come on, you are not "exploiting" people if you pay them to handle your support calls, be your virtual secretary or whatever.
- ganzuul 5y agoI have not seen handling of support calls without exploitation. It's integral to handling support calls, but somehow market forces turn it into exploitation. The worst I have seen was Dell, which produced sub-par products in order to sell an outsourced support service for net profit.
- Grustaf 5y agoThe context here is a one-man internet company that hires someone on Upwork to help him or her with some administrative task. That doesn't fit any definition of "exploitation". You could say that the entire global capitalist system is exploitative in nature, or something like that, but an individual entrepreneur posting on Upwork is not "exploiting" anyone.