Loading ...For God’s sakes, can this society please pull its head out of its crack, stop being such greedy, tacky cheapskates and start looking at the bigger, longer-term picture beyond its own self-absorbed ass?
I’m happy for Timothy Ferriss that he’s quite the media darling of the moment with his gimmicky-entitled book, “The Four Hour Work Week.”
It’s hype. It’s spin. You will never, ever achieve a four-hour work week. Not unless you’re a wealthy CEO with unlimited financial resources at your disposal. Sorry to burst your gullible, gotta-jump-on-every-snake-oil-salesman’s-new-bandwagon bubble, but it just ain’t gonna happen.
Look, there IS some excellent advice in there, such as not multi-tasking and putting some structure, standards and better habits in place for things like checking emails and answering phone calls. But it’s this kind of advice that really pisses me off:
“Outsource tasks that bog you down to overseas companies for as little as $5 an hour (many of these businesses have employees with MBAs and Master’s degrees who are thrilled to do your bidding).”
For Christ’s sake, for those of you desperately trying to grow your own business and market online–look around you at your fellow business owners. Yeesh, look at your own circumstances. You are cheapskating each other right into the poor house.
And in the process, you’re contributing to the problems and decline of your own country’s economy.
Why on earth do you think you deserve to be paid the professional fees you charge, but expect third world rates for the professional services you need, and won’t give business back to the very community you take money from? What kind of business climate do you think you’re helping to create? How long can we sustain a dynamic like that? Your very own countrymen cannot make a living because cheap people like you won’t pay them fair and square market rates.
You know what the most just rewards would be for the cheapskates out there (which is already, verrrry slowly beginning to happen)? For the Indians and others to realize they are selling themselves short and to start charging their international clients the same market rates as everyone else. And gee, if you don’t give a crap, well, I think maybe you deserve $5 an hour clients as well. Personally, I refuse to give my business to anyone who engages in offshoring like that.
Hey, are you from India and reading this? Shoot, you thought you were getting rich on $5 an hour? Come on, these lazy exploiters are taking advantage of you. Use their greed against them. You can squeeze far more than $5 an hour out of them and REALLY get rich!
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