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The radical idea that every day should have some peak-energy time free of commitments (not just exhausted evening time). It is the end state. All this 4-day week, early retirement etc is kinda bs incrementalism.
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Even “retirement” is a dumb idea. You retire to rest and recuperate. The low-quality energy is in the definition. It’s the dregs at day, week, and life scale (evenings, weekends, late life). To label a contested time “retirement” is to admit defeat on time agency before you start
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Continuous partial leisure is better. Not full-blown leisure society or veblenesque leisure class parasitism. Just... your peak, quality time us your own. I’ve had that condition for like 25 years now, but the first 15 I had to be very sneaky and clever to arrange life that way.
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Everything good I’ve done has come out of the continuous partial leisure. Including everything I was being paid to do. It’s not unproductive time. It’s pricelessly productive time.
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I’m all for making huge, debilitating sacrifices if you want to. Just on an opt-in basis. It’s very rare for high levels of sacrifice to actually be necessary across the board even in less prosperous societies.
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Not really. 4HWW is buying time back from an economy that undervalues it by running shitty hustles that have a larger social costs. Hence sketchy online vitamin stores. That’s resigning yourself to mortgaging a bit of your soul to grift to save the rest. Partial Faustian bargain.
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