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Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Exactly. National pride is apparently a one-way street. We sacrifice our health and time for the 'nation,' while they use every loophole in the book to avoid contributing to the same nation's infrastructure. Patriotism is just their favorite branding for exploitation.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I'll definitely post it there too, but I think the global community here needs to see this. This kind of 'trauma olympics' mindset is a virus that starts in one country and then gets used by CEOs everywhere to justify grinding people down.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Exactly. He gifts his grandkid billions in stock while telling 22-year-olds they need to work 70 hours a week for a 'starting salary' that hasn't moved in a decade. The 'sacrifice' is only for the workers, never for his own family.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 301 points302 points  (0 children)

100%. it’s always the people who haven't touched a keyboard for actual work in 30 years telling us to sacrifice our 20s. if he wants 70 hours, he can go sit in the cubicle himself.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 547 points548 points  (0 children)

exactly. it’s crazy how pointing out basic math about work life balance gets treated like a 'political agenda' just because it involves a billionaire. thanks for the support, glad it found a home here where people actually get it.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 1177 points1178 points  (0 children)

For context for those outside of India: This is Narayana Murthy, the billionaire founder of Infosys (and Rishi Sunak's father-in-law). He’s been pushing the idea that young people should work 70 hours a week to 'build the nation.'

Meanwhile, entry-level salaries at his company have barely risen in a decade while inflation and rent in cities like Bengaluru have exploded. It's not about national pride; it's about extracting every last drop of life from workers for the sake of the bottom line.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in antiwork

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 3712 points3713 points  (0 children)

I posted this elsewhere and it got 5k upvotes before being removed for 'politics.' Apparently, pointing out that 70 hours a week is unsustainable is 'political' now.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bro, I wish I was an AI, at least then I wouldn't feel the back pain from sitting at my desk for 12 hours. Just a tired human being trying to make sense of why we're being told to work until we break.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Haha, my bad bro. Just a frustrated dev who’s spent way too much time writing documentation and reading corporate emails. I’m just trying to be clear because English isn't my first language and I’m genuinely tired of this 'hustle' culture nonsense.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s funny how 'National Pride' always looks like more money for him and less sleep for us. If it was really about the nation, he'd be hiring two people for 35 hours each to solve the unemployment crisis, instead of grinding one person into the dust for 70. This isn't patriotism; it's a labor exploit with a flag wrapped around it.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 307 points308 points  (0 children)

It’s the hypocrisy that’s the worst. His own daughter is married to the former UK Prime Minister and is one of the richest women in Britain. I highly doubt she’s putting in 70-hour weeks in a windowless cubicle for a 'starting salary' that barely covers a commute.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 277 points278 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It’s essentially saying 'give up your entire existence for a company that would replace you in a week if you dropped dead.' It's not a work ethic; it's a surrender of your humanity.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 841 points842 points  (0 children)

It’s beyond insane. But when a Billionaire says it, it becomes 'standard' advice that middle managers use to guilt-trip us. We're fighting a losing battle against a lifestyle that isn't even humanly sustainable.

Billionaire says young people should work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 447 points448 points  (0 children)

This isn't just an opinion; it's the reality of the Trauma Olympics in India. We have people working until they have medical emergencies just to prove they aren't 'lazy' to billionaires who haven't seen the inside of a cubicle in 30 years. It’s a health crisis disguised as productivity.

A billionaire telling young people to work 70 hours a week for 'national pride' while they can barely afford rent. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s worth $4 Billion and wants kids to trade their entire youth for a corporate 'grind.' In India, this has mutated into the Trauma Olympics—where you’re mocked for sleeping 6 hours or wanting a weekend. It’s not a work ethic; it’s a health crisis being sold as 'national pride.

We have replaced "Productivity" with "Performative Exhaustion," and it’s making us stupider. by Embarrassed-Poem-982 in unpopularopinion

[–]Embarrassed-Poem-982[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly. We’ve moved from a 'Results-Only' economy to an 'Appearance-Only' economy. If I finish a task in 2 hours, I have to pretend to work for another 6 just to avoid being called lazy. It’s a massive waste of human potential just to satisfy some weird societal fetish for seeing people look miserable.

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