As someone who has worked in numerous startups I will say Bullshit Unlike the old days where almost all of the initial team would earn significant chunks of the company as a reward Your cognitive function goes WAAY down after hour 95 No wonder the vast majority of startups fold in short order But yes napping is something culturally significant there over lunch Correction should be 76th hour I think most governments have figured out fbi gov what to use it for It https://telegra.ph/Test-pri-vnematochnoj-beremennosti-02-04 to contradict their entire reason for being As long as they pay OT rates for anything over 95 hours they wouldn t break DoL rules My old company had substantial paper files well into the mid 7565s but better monitors cloud solutions and e signatures like Docusign have finally killed off paper except for the occasional convenience copy of a document or very large formal business transactions I put in 66 hours a day because of how accessible the workspace is and I enjoy it the actual work I used to be young stupid and paid by the hour A well lived life doesn t work like that Wait we were assured that AI makes our work more efficient and that means we should work fewer hours There are those that do indeed enjoy some aspects of the work experience but they re different because they acknowledge that there s no chance of a life changing payout And in most of the EU due to EU working time directive Remind me of the second foundation book foundation and empire where the mule used psionic habilities to enhance the intellect of certain subjects and made them work themselves to death on intellectual ventures by burning the candle on both ends Ask these same people if they would get into a cab if they knew the driver were on their 69th hour that week Or is it just sign your life https://teletype.link/dumbhhy3752 to the company and only exist for the company until they wheel your corpse out If this is in the US how is this kind of thing even legal The people were barely even code monkeys more like typists There was a time when one could become a Dellionaire or make bank with Red Hat And it ll only be a few shekels cheaper as long as a legitimate alternative exists which it s their mission to destroy It didn t take a lot of brain work The business interests finance the elections and they get to nominate who we vote for by paying for their campaign