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Hypocritical
There's a lot of hypocritical advice and false values being promoted in this book. For example, the author advises you demand to get paid for the quality of your work, not the time spent on doing it, but then he suggests you outsource your labor overseas, paying somebody else $5 an hour to do it. If somebody actually has to do the work, then the "solution" he is promoting is false, because it's simply masking the fact that the work has to be done by somebody, somewhere. Worse, that "somebody"--most likely a poor person in the developing world--is actaully being exploited for another person's benefit. Similarly, the author lists ways you can live and travel for free. Again, these are what I would call false values. They promote a greedy ethic of something-for-nothing, an idea that will appeal to people who want others to work so that they can live the good life.
May 2007 · Books