<story><title>The lifestyle business bullshit (2009)</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1686-the-lifestyle-business-bullshit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Some people don&apos;t realize the implications of hours worked on effective wages. If you work more for the same income you are giving yourself a pay cut, and worse a free time cut. If you work less then you are giving yourself a raise, and increasing your free time as well, a double whammy.&lt;p&gt;Most people have trouble thinking like this though. They lose themselves in their work, filling up their time with trivial and menial work (or even, as is typical, spending a lot of time in the office not actually working very much) instead of trying to maximize their effectiveness. They think that somehow they shouldn&apos;t work too little because of some sense of a work ethic based on economic systems that are now outmoded. And too they think that earning a high income while working only a little is too much like being actually &quot;rich&quot;. Nobody likes being rich these days, they like the money well enough, but they don&apos;t like the idea, they want to justify their wealth with long hours at the office.</text></comment>
<story><title>The lifestyle business bullshit (2009)</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1686-the-lifestyle-business-bullshit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timjahn</author><text>Amen.  There&apos;s more to life than business.&lt;p&gt;If you want to devote your life to creating and running a world changing business, do it.&lt;p&gt;If you want to devote your life to your family and kids, and use a &quot;lifestyle business&quot; to fund it all, do it.&lt;p&gt;Just remember one is not better than the other.  To each his /her own.</text></comment>