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I have seen so much career discussion threads that revolved around the idea of choosing a path that leaves room for literary pursuits, yet I've rarely seen the aspect of owning business and entrepreneurship in general being included in those discussion.

Is there any particular reason?

I mean, for one, it takes you out of 'wageslaving', since that term is so frequently thrown around here.
Secondly, if done right, it's the shortest way of bringing in the bucks and solving the money problem once and for all.

So why the negligence?

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14794656

Usury is evil

>> No.14794700

In America, entrepreneurship means being a sellout who works all the time and takes advantage of their employees (if they have any) or financial loopholes or usury to get ahead at every possible chance. It’s become really impossible to compete with the big players without being an absolute scumbag or a gigantic faggot. It gets to a point where it requires an almost obsessive attitude about making money. I say this as someone who worked in an entrepreneurial business for a year and the ran my own business for a year. I completely stopped because I just hated the person it forced me to be. People that like literature and hang out on edgy anonymous message boards are not money changers. They’re generally people who like ideas, who care about culture and art and things such as that and who probably seek some sort of refuge from aspects of contemporary society, including the reduction of everything in it to economy, in internet corners. Unfortunately, we live in an epoch where everything is commoditized and so there’s a natural repulsion away from that. The horror of wage slaving isn’t just that you’re working for someone else. It’s that your entire existence is reduced to mere units of economic production. Entrepreneurship demands it even more so right now.

>> No.14794710

>>14794700
any advice on finding a job where I won't want to kill myself? Or any advice in general?

>> No.14794747

>>14794700
>entrepreneurship means being a sellout who works all the time and takes advantage of their employees
still better than being the employee, isn't it not?

>> No.14794768

>>14794747
Being the employee is easier.

>> No.14794789

I wonder about finding a nice town where I can buy a small farm to get some extra food and then perhaps work some job until it's possible to make some extra money with the farm leaving lots of spare time to read, be out and spend time with a family. Not sure if it's realistic yet but trying to go in that direction.

>> No.14794808

>>14794768
How is being the guy taken advantage of easier?

>> No.14794843

>>14794808
Small-time "entrepreneurs" are really not different from wage slaves. Some of them think they are, though.

>> No.14794956

>>14794710
I guess work for a non-profit. And I'm not talking about some jewy NGO or massive fraudulent charity, but rather civic and and community institutions like the library, museum, park or soup kitchen. It sounds corny and the pay will probably suck, but at least you can hold your head up high as you give your labor to meaningful pursuits.
Support the beauty that you see in life. I like books, so I want to see libraries thrive. I appreciate art so I want to see museums flourish. I enjoy nature, so I want to parks preserved.

Modernity wants you to embrace materialism as beauty is snuffed out in the background. Don't play this game; there's enough slaves to the "Free Market" as is, they don't need you anyway.

>> No.14795173

>>14794789
Bomberman

>> No.14795289

Starting a business either means already being privileged or working as hard as any wagecuck until you're 30 to maybe have it better off later. I don't want to tell you we live in a society, but the system is literally designed to filter out businesses.

>> No.14795396

>>14795289
>working as hard as any wagecuck until you're 30 to maybe have it better off later
That's an extremely good pay off

>> No.14795471

I want to make books. i'm going to start doing it on my own because binding books is comfy desu.

>> No.14795482

>>14794645
You have to work your ass off to operate a business you didn’t inherit.

>> No.14795547

>>14795482
*upto a point

>> No.14795579

>>14794700
>get taken advantage of instead of taking advantage of others.