by
Ben Tarnoff,
Moira Weigel
(editors)
[...] The term "lifestyle business," he points out - meaning a business that is designed to keep its owners fed and happy rather than making them brain-meltingly wealthy - is "kind of a pejorative in this world." Because to be reminded of why people normally work is an unwelcome dose of real life, of gravity, of adulthood.
love the last bit. startup life is about escaping the reality that most people are compelled to sell their labour-power merely in order to survive. it's fetishising work-as-choice