I'm old enough to have read "The 4 hour workweek" when it first came out. Pure grift avant la lettre. This is a guy who was telling people that the way to "be productive" was to get an employment and then subcontract the job to call centers in India.
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I mean, I know people who have jobs where automating or delegating parts of their job to outside help might actually make good financial sense & free up time to work on other things, or for helping the company solve other problems that might justify higher pay. Is there something particularly wrong with that?