I am even more disappointed by that guy’s choice to work only 6 days a week.
I do not believe in sleep or rest.
I firmly believe that CEOs require diapers, not toilet breaks.
I used to shit myself continuously at the office, the stench was unbearable. And yet I went on, staying at my desk, asking people to come in to berate them.
I chose to be estranged by my whole family. My kids hate me. My wife despises me. My father won’t talk to me. Even my mother loathes me.
I managed all that by dedicating every second of my life to my job, so that I can die miserably and get a gravestone saying ‘lmao the shitman’s dead, rest in shit loser’.
Amateur! I haven’t stood up in so long my leg muscles have atrophied. Slowly my body has fused with my office chair. I only take 10 min micro naps as my body periodically shuts down, a weakest of my flesh. Never leaving the office, I occupy one entire floor of the building as my productivity lair. This floor has been secretly hidden from everyone else to avoid distractions. I only enter other floors when most employees are gone for the day, usually late at night. I make these excursions to double check my coworkers daily progress or scavenge for food.
Most of my coworkers seem to fear me, perhaps I’ve become something of myth? They gave me a name, because I heard one scream “the Chairman is real!” as I startled him. He was working late that night as I creeped around his cubicle wall. Since I was famished, I quickly knocked him out with a keyboard and dragged him back to my lair for a quick power lunch.
Someone is thinking about the shareholders!!!
if it took him 91 hours a week to do his job, they probably should have let him go.
It’s the classic I-suffered-so-everyone-else-should-suffer-to-keep-it-fair mentality.
Ignoring the fact that we should work to reduce suffering for future generations.
And that it’s probably a lie, and even if it isn’t a lie he’s not doing it anymore.
He is counting all of his two hour lunches, his golfing/tennis/other sport activities that count as ‘networking’, spending hours harrassing his secretaries, and all of the other non-productive ‘work’ in his entirely fictitious work schedule.
Only 13% of adults in India have attainted tertiary education vs 17% in China, and 50% in the U.S. Explains where the bulk of productivity is in those countries, hard and blue collar labor. So this explains this guy’s pov, he basically wants to exploit labor as hard as possible.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree-attainment-by-country/
Republicans want to create that kind of system here in the U.S. because they’re convinced that you don’t need an educated population to maintain US GDP supremacy, completely neglecting that the bulk of US services are centered around work that’s not hard labor or blue collar related. Even if the U.S. makes a transition to blue collar or hard labor work in the next decade, it will never attain the same kind of productivity as India and China in this respect because of the different cultural make up of these respective countries…unless, there’s a brain drain and people who want a higher quality of life abandon ship to a non-factory country.
But importantly, the reason China and India have that kind of GDP output given their respective focus in the first place is precisely because the U.S. focuses its attention on financial and technical innovation. So if everyone shifts to pushing hard labor, then what happens? Someone’s going to have to pick up the slack, and it’s likely going to be the EU unless Russia steam rolls over them.
The way nations and their leaders decide to do things is interesting, often to the detriment of sane long term investments.
They also have 1.4 Billion people, each.
4x the US population.
These people actually think this is impressive. To me, grind culture and anything like this mentality is a failing of human society. Living for no reason at all other than to be a cog in the economic machine. Rarely do they have hobbies or interests beyond “gettin’ that money, son”, and it’s even more rare they provide anything of major value to their community. Just the absolute worst.
Some people have no actual personality and latch on to some despicable one-dimensional trait. Like Trumpies.
The baffling thing is why, they have no time to enjoy the money. Money is a means to an end. “I want my kids to have a better life”, “I want to retire early” etc etc may be worth working yourself to the bone for, but in reality these are the same people that never see their kids and plan to work until they die.
i’m pretty convinced that there rich fuckheads just have some fundamental psychological unwellness, either inherent or brought upon them by their childhood.
Take elon musk as the extreme example: clearly just not capable of being truly happy, he’s constantly seeking validation and no amount is ever actually enough to make him feel confident, richest person in the world buys twitter to remove the ability to express dislike towards him.
And as a counterexample of what a mentally healthy rich person does: there’s a guy from my region who seems to have genuinely made his own wealth and he basically just lives like any other middle aged dude, normal house in a normal town and he goes to the grocery store every now and then, because that’s a pretty fucking sweet life when you don’t have to worry about money. Just sit on the porch eating cinnamon buns for the rest of your life, and spend some of that wealth and use your connections to get a frozen meal company to add pancakes to their product line.
Now to be clear he’s not some shining beacon of morality, he’s just normal, and it’s wild how much of a contrast that makes to your average billionaire psychopath.
I think it’s what the Buddhists call suffering. There’s no end to wanting, especially not if you’re convinced that it can soothe your existential unease. I think that Elon and a bunch of the other billionaires are almost like gamblers or alcoholics, only they’re constantly trying to soothe that unease by chasing just one more zero or a little bit more power or control. Of course, the relief never comes, so they just keep digging, convinced that if they just get enough zeroes or control, they’ll finally feel some relief.
Imo, this is distinct from the local millionaires. I’ve met some successful mid-size business owners who were pretty chill people. One I’m thinking of in particular mostly uses his money to help fill unmet needs in his community (I.E. local shithead ambulance companies refused to adequately cover the community because there wasn’t (enough) money in it for them, so he started his own, with blackjack and hookers, and everyone’s happy. The company just barely breaks even each year, the crews are well taken care of, and the community is very happy with the service provided). If you ran into the dude on the street, which has happened, you probably wouldn’t guess he was a millionaire. Meanwhile, you’d probably never run into the likes of Elon in the wild, because of his very valid concern of getting reincarnated.
In reality you are just addicted to making money so what you are saying is “I do drugs and so should everyone”
Just to add more context, this shithead’s daughter is the wife of the British PM.
Wife of previous British PM, not the current one
I was just looking at a picture of Victoria Starmer thinking, “uhhh, what?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshata_Murty - Wife of Rishi Sunak
It’s a big club
This isn’t that difficult if your only job is reading emails and giving one word replies like Yes, No, Proceed, or Delay
Which is all the guys at that level do.
At my job we’ve learned that anyone above director level simply will not read beyond the first sentence of a fucking email. So we have to write them these orc-like one liner emails and pray they understand whatever it is the fuck they need to understand. They have zero nuance or patience. They just want to grunt and point.
Did he fly to work on the back of a dragon as well?
How do you maintain a 14 hour schedule in half a day?
You offshore your hours to someone else in India
Imagine being this turd’s kid
The look on his face really screams happiness and fulfillment, don’t it?
“I hated my life, if I had any, and so will you”
pakistan and africa agree with him completely
I used to work with a guy like this, they’d do six hours of work in twelve hours, were constantly having important business calls etc, and simply didn’t have a life outside of work.
I’d be willing to bet this person was less productive than some executives that worked less than half the time.
