A lot of great points here. I'm in the position of having a 4-hour workweek, as I run an online business that generates a pretty good income with very little wo

A lot of great points here. I'm in the position of having a 4-hour workweek, as I run an online business that generates a pretty good income with very little work due to everything being automated. I don't employ anyone else or outsource anything for the most part (except occasionally farming off entire projects to other people if I don't want them). A lot of the argument seems to be that you are using other employees working 40-80 hour weeks for the things you enjoy in your daily life. But I think the main point of Tim's book is that most processes can be automated or at least optimised. Consider the examples of "Someone’s gotta run" in the article: it's certainly possible for coffee shops, trash collection, food production and Amazon delivery to be mostly automated. Amazon has already automated most parts of their operation except for the flights and drivers delivering the parcels, but even that could be automated one day.