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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I love how we're simultaneously being told that AI is this wonder invention that's streamlining everything but also that we're apparently supposed to now work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Either AI works as advertised, in which case let it do most of the work and let us work less, or AI doesn't actually help at all, in which case fuck off and stop trying to shoehorn it into everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

All those men lost in the jungle and now we’re giving credibility to the Viet Cong. We truly have fallen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We need to tax these fuckers till they bleed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it's the only nonviolent way to control them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Can we just agree as a society that people like this are ruining the world? Maybe if they were treated like the enemies of humanity they are, and exposed to 1% of the misery they cause, it would be a less common genre of shitty person?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

CEOs 996 is 9 hours per week, 9 days per month, 6 months a year right?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Your 'work' and my 'work' are different, Boy Wonder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Nice - Amazon executive and doesn’t know how to use its and it’s properly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Given how much billion dollar start-ups are ruining our world, wouldn't that be a good thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't the point of working hard so that you can take it easy eventually? These psychos never take it easy, the suffering is the point for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It's the difference between people who "work to live," vs. those who "live to work."

The latter are borderline sociopaths, at best

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It can be that or it can be the satisfaction of doing useful work well. Venture capitalists don't do useful work so they don't know that satisfaction. And they don't know what else to do but chase money because they lack the capacity to appreciate life as it is and are probably scared to just stop, in case they have to face the void in their heart. Hence their unstoppable, narrow-minded craving for more money.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago

JFC, I loathe douchebags like this so very much.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

You'll get four and you'll like it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Stebbings, founder of 20VC, a firm managing $650 million in funds, advised founders on LinkedIn last month that “7 days a week is the required velocity to win right now,” to compete with startups in Silicon Valley and China.

Just from that sentence you can tell the guy leads an impoverished life in ways that won't be fixed by money. But he's going to spend his life chasing money because he can't imagine what else to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Just like all the other psychopath techbros, he'll take from everyone else, make everyone miserable, wallow in his superiority, and be a general scouge to Earth in an attempt to fill a void that will always just expand anyways. At the end of the day, they'll always have the most money and still be the poorest people in the world. No amount they exploit from the rest of us will satiate their ravenous, everlasting hunger.

They'll punish us, who they envy for our ability to live rich lives with emotions that they will never experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

If we're lucky, they'll realize it and kill themselves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds like hes just describing an oversaturated market

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

If there's one thing that businessmen and investors demonstrate an appalling lack of understanding of, it's economics.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good - nobody needs billion-dollar startups. The line doesn't have to co constantly go up forever. We don't need to constantly improve productivity and do more for less. Fuck that and fuck this "debate".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I remember reading about a hotel in Japan that has been open for over a millennium, and IIRC it’s owned by the same family who has owned it for most of that time, and that’s their only business. We need more of that: steady-state businesses that operate but don’t pursue permanent growth.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago

This guy's upset you won't break your back to make him richer.

What a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Says the dude who counts golfing, diners, other events as "work"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jokes on him: some of the laziest jobs I’ve had were for successful startups.

Hell, I work for a startup right now and spent the last three hours in my hammock watching YouTube.

I get paid for results, not time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Must be nice. I've worked for a couple myself, and all I constantly felt like I was being exploited the entire time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

I’ve worked for a few where I was being exploited. One paid me by letting me keep the laptop they bought me.

Then some accountant called me and asked if I still had it.

I said no.

Luckily as you do this more you learn what to look out for. The one I work for now is pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Debate"? What fucking "debate"?

Someone suggests something comedically fucked up and it's now a debate?

Shut the fuck up and sit down, you VC cunt. No one wants to hear your clown-show takes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Someone suggests something comedically fucked up and it's now a debate?

Yep, this is the legacy of social media. And it's been tearing apart the fabric of society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'd be so mindful of how i spoke, if I had a Backpfeifengesicht like him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah you can fuck yourself with a rusty pitchfork. I'd prefer death over those shitty hours.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I mean this is just how you get any real talent with any real mobility to use that mobility to leave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

996 work culture isn't for everyone - or even most people. But if someone wants to start a company doing something they love and work that much, I say go for it. I started a company, albeit I only work 60/week, doing something I love and working with my family. It isn't the only way, but is the way that works for us. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

albeit I only work 60/week

You do realize that this is a lot of fucking hours to work per week, right? We need to stop normalizing this shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I work from home and with my family, and I love what I do (it is my hobby). I don't ask our staff to work this much and I don't communicate with them outside of business hours (or after 2pm on a Friday). So, I'm not sure why this is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

That’s fine since you get the upside of the business as an owner. A salaried employee may not. Equity may be offered too, but i have seen enough situations where the capital investors get a payout that leaves those with lesser shares in the cold.

In short, fuck these people, pay me to care and I may choose to help build their business.

One cannot eat pie in the sky.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm fine with that, it just sounds like these people think they can commodify that kind of dedication in exchange for much less than what you got creating your own.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

We don’t need a society of billion dollar startups, and we don’t need cunts like him using our oxygen.

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