competition, sales, social media, chaos, and life itself. The freedom that productivity bros offer, however, is not simply a form of work-life balance within the status quo. Both Ballantyne and Dumas are acolytes of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, which promises freedom from others—and from the necessity of selling your time at all. The idea is that by constructing passive income streams, you free yourself from the constraints of capitalism by recapitulating it within your very person. Books like Ari Meisel’s The Art of Less Doing promise that “modern methods like the 80/20 rule,33
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