45% of New Zealand employers work at least 50 hours per week and 25% of the work at least 60 hours per week. Less than 15% of permanent employees work similar hours. Who is exploiting whom in the inherent inequality of bargaining power between employers and workers?
Source: Statistics New Zealand Survey of Working Life: December 2012 quarter.
The self-employed in the above chart employ no one else. Self-employed who also hire others are included in employers. In consequence, many of the self-employed are contractors rather than small business owners.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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