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I'm questioning the hidden assumption that everyone should work five days a week. If the guy really wants to follow his passion a better solution would be to wo

• derefr 14y ago
  Personally, I suggest the solution from the Four Hour Work Week. Paraphrased: 1. Start a company that passively earns money. It doesn't have to earn much, it just has to earn it with no marginal effort on your part. Though, earning more is better: ideally, your audience should be wealthy people in the Western world. Consumers who spend frivolously are good. Businesses are better. Big businesses who don't even remember you're on their balance-sheet are best. 2. Then, go live somewhere not in the US, somewhere with an extremely low cost of living, somewhere where that passive income goes a long way. (The book terms this "travelling", but you don't actually have to keep moving; you can pick one cheap place and stay.) 3. Do your life's work from there.