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Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule/

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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that probably goes along with that $20M zuck offered to AI professionals. Yeah, we’ll pay you $20M a year, you’ll be spent around 6mon into the job your productivity will be 60% so… (taps calculator) we get f#ck all for a sh%t ton of money and destroy people… letsdoit!

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  • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Give me a devent chunk of the company so I make proportional profits. Otherwise, no thanks.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I start thinking about extreme property damage at 48 hours of work.

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure half these articles are issued by the companies themselves just to get people outraged and talking about this, just so that they can test the waters and see how many people will defend it.

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    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Let’s kill every billionaire, and we’ll solve lots of the problems.

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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The French Revolution had very little impact in preventing French aristocracy.

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Capitalists going to capitalist

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  • Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I certainly hope these people aren’t driving themselves to work with this schedule. In addition I hope no one on it has a heart condition.

    www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-143/…/2004-143.pdf

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6617405/

    researchgate.net/…/309714292_Long_Working_Hours_a…

    The sweet spot for 12s is in having 4 days off per week. There isn’t time for anything in life on work days except work, sleep, commute. Thirdly, the first day off is a wash. Recovery. Like a nap that simply goes on all day. 12s are great but only with block scheduling and days off.

    This schedule proposal sounds like something out of pre-OSHA, possibly intended to kill people. Live to work, not the other way around.

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  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Reicht Wingers: Hey birthday rates in the US are plummeting!?!?

    Tech Bros: Let’s make 20 and 30 somethings work 72 hours a week!

    Reicht Wingers: Genius!

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