Like all other people, I believe he should lead by example so others can easily follow his work.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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I’d like to see this fuckstick standing on his feet all day, and asking his supervisor for permission to pee. Then we’ll see how he feels about eliminating weekends.
What this guy fundamentally fails to understand is that countries go from low gdp to high gdp not by producing more exports but rather by getting domestic consumption up. Time off is required for domestic consumption to happen. Henry Ford didn't give his workers time off for their benefit, he did it so they would buy cars.
he did it ~~so they would buy cars~~ to kneecap any union effort.
Don't get me wrong, he did the right thing, but it was to stop a union being created rather than some 4D chess move. He did use your logic as the excuse, though.
People had to fight and die for an 8 hour work day and 5 day work week. You'd better be willing to fight again, cuz they're coming for that.
Billionaires were a mistake. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I regret to inform you that a billionaire stole your arm to help pay for their next mansion / yacht / social media site.
That would've been so much funnier if you'd use the backslash.
Every weekend should be a three-day weekend.
If everyone got double pay after 24 work hours per week, companies would have an incentive to keep each employee at under that limit. If they needed longer hours, Toney could hire a second employee to finish the day/week. If you job won’t pay for your extra hours but you want more money, then then working a second job actually fits into the number of hours in the week.
“I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave,” he asserted .
Fine fine, can you speed this up a little? The grave part I mean.
I'm sure the constant 70 hour weeks are speeding things along
“I was not very happy with that. I think in this country, we have to work very hard because there is no substitute for hard work even if you're the most intelligent guy,”
Dude... If you work hard despite the fact that you claim to be intelligent... You are not intelligent.
Work smart, not hard. The smart thing is to take breaks so that you can focus on what you are doing. Not working till you drop.
Guarantee he's one of those rich pricks who count flying on a plane as "work". But he will work the dogshit out of his employees.
Just like my prick maga boss
And "business" lunches, rounds of golf, general hobnobbing, etc.
Guys like that will be on holiday and check their email once per day, respond to two of them, then claim to "never take vacation".
Their whole reality is warped.
You also have a lot of founders who get to that position are workaholics who love focusing on their building empire. For them, it is hard to imagine how people wouldn't want to dedicate everything to building an empire like they do.
Yeah.
It sounds delusional, but by their deluded standards it makes sense.
Everyone should want to work themselves to death do build Jeff Bezos' empire. It's just logical... At least to Jeff.
You also get the problem where people will start companies with other employees that are ride or die because they had significant equity in the company. Once you approach anything like Amazon's size, the potential equity people can get has been severely diminished.
Those are my favorites - "Why doesn't everybody in my company want to work 80 hour weeks and never take vacation, like I do?" Geez, maybe it's because they don't own the fucking company and there is absolutely no benefit to them to work themselves to death? They're not the ones making more money just because they're increasing company profits.
Yes and on a global scale we massively overproduce a great many things in the first place. If we could calm the fuck down, we could all work a bit less.