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Okay so I know nothing of the nature of your business, but something tells me that you are forced to work that much in order to survive. That is very much a result of capitalism (most of your work value is probably ultimately going to the capitalists), and the fact that you seem to feel that this is fine implies some sort of Stockholm syndrome relationship with the capitalists.
I'm complaining but I'm also not complaining. I guess I'm a capitalist now. A slightly left of centre capitalist. But I also work. Hard.
I do scientific equipment -- ground penetrating radars and similar. I started this business because I made a device when working for another company and didn't get to own the intellectual property. Which is fair -- they bankrolled it. But I wanted to own my next creation, and to do that, I needed to go independent.
It took a lot of education (7 years), experience (12 years), and capital (I wagered my entire retirement savings). I work this much because I want the business to snowball, and it is. It means I only pay myself like a student (fortunately I chose a low cost of living city to startup in), but pile up equity in lieu of salary.
I will note that this is only possible because of socialism providing the safety net that it does in Canada. I had no family wealth. My education was good and relatively cheap. I was student loan free within 5 years. I don't worry about health care. Soon we'll even have dental care on a national scale (2024). I pay taxes and am happy to pay it forward to the society that helped make me, provided they do so smartly. (Radical Centrist.)
But, yeah, the business model I chose doesn't allow me sick days until we have our first employee.
If you were a farmer you'd have to work hard to survive too