I tried my hand at being an independent consultant for a while. I hated having to manage everything myself. Realized I want someone else to handle all of that and just want to show up, do a job, go home. Much happier working for others. Might be a personality thing.

I once wrote and sold some extremely shitty software, most of the effort was in the testing and support “departments”, which were merged as I just had my (fortunately mostly very patient) customers work through the bugs with me.

This reads like some crappy anti-union propaganda.

The trick is to only employ yourself.

all of those things are less hassle than having a boss

Depends on the job.

Mine is great, I wouldnt trade having a narrow set of well defined goals and a known set of giant pains in the ass for the plethora of ever changing issues a small business startup has to deal with.

I know plenty of people who would.

Fairy tales that middle managers tell themselves so they feel important and smart for sucking up to the company owner.

Rather brave to believe that you’ll have a product, an engineering departement, a marketing departement, a support departement or any employees in your startup.

The best case scenario while living a capitalist way of life is to be the exploiter. Sure some can save up to buy their emancipation from the economic system, but they will always be behind those who take advantage of others.

What a beautiful life to leave your kids…