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Uncanny how he gets everything right until the very last sentence of the interview... and the grin on his face shows he actually knew how that issue would turn

• dogma1138 11y ago
  Well the it's the late 70's the "myth" of the American 3 day work week was some what still relevant until the 80's pretty much blew it out of the water. From the late 50's trough out the 70's there was a great "hope" that automation and technology will result in shorter and shorter work weeks, that might actually could've been achievable to some degree if the US and the western world at large did not had to compete with emerging markets. In 1979's China wasn't the monster it is today, India was in worse shape than some African countries and Japan was the source of all the cheap electronic junk. Sadly enough today the companies and verticals that can actually drive the work week down mainly startups rather propagate the myth of developers that work 12+ hours a day and to make this myth a reality we get work places that serve 3-4 meals a day, have showers, gym access and sleeping rooms even. I wonder just how competitive a startup could really bee if it asked it's workers to only work 5-6 hours instead of working 4 and spending the rest playing foosball and catching up on cat videos...
  • tim333 11y ago
    Also foosball and cat videos kinda suck. If you prefer that to the main thing you're working on it may be the wrong thing.