Who needs a life, religion, and family when you are working as a cog in "profit generator machine 3000"?
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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Yeah, I’d work 995 if…
- I was being paid twice as much as I am now
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.
- You have someone who can do all my chores and errands before I get home.
There’s not enough money you could give me could make up for having Saturday off.
Yeah, you gotta work like that, if you're the one starting the business. Talking to a client who owned several businesses one night over drinks. He said you have to work your ass off for a year and-a-half to two years, then it pretty much runs itself.
One might note that he wasn't talking about his employees working like that.
Yeah, like, I would be willing to work those hours if I had a significant stake in the company and I had a voice in how the company was run.
As a salaried employee, I'm not doing that.
I'd like to see this motherfucker work for 12 hours every day for 6 days a week for some minimum wage shit. These corporate suits are beyond disconnected from reality.
He probably "works" more than that, because for him his "work" looks like riding a private jet, golfing with business associates, fancy lunches and dinners, or sending emails from his phone on the beach.
"I work this hard, everyone should work this hard!" -- someone has no idea what hard work is.
Oh oh oh, they have one for this!
"HaRd WoRk DoEs NoT EqUaL VaLuAbLe WoRk!!"
"As you can clearly see on this chart I made of the value I put on things, the value I put on my own work is the highest, and the rest of you are very low, and you should feel bad that I don't value your work! What are you going to do about it? Work harder? Haha, that will just make my value go up even higher!"
We live in a world of Supply & Demand, and he won't get the supply of labor he requires unless he meets the demand for proper compensation. It's the simplest economics there is.
Well not everything needs to be worth a billion. Certainly no person should ever be that rich.
People with insatiable greed have a mental disorder. They cannot even conceptualize the idea of working a reasonable amount, and being happy with a modest profit.
Maybe we should stop letting the most sociopathic & insatiable people set standards that can never be satisfied.
You gonna pay me a billion dollars to work at your startup? No? Then shut the fuck up, you wannabe-slaver asshole!
Tencent subsidiary riot games already does this. By soft policies like providing shuttle (only at night/early morning) and free dinner.
these people are physically incapable of saying things meant to scare people without it coming out as supporting the thing they dislike.
no more billion-dollar startups? fucking hell yeah, let's implement it!
Smells of a Nepo baby
No. It's obviously not.