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Academics and entrepreneurs don't get paid by the hour.
by throwaway080383 8y ago
Academics and entrepreneurs don't get paid by the hour.
- benatkin 8y agoNot all countries have certain types of salaried employees exempt from overtime and overtime pay. South Korea doesn't appear to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_hours_in_South_Korea#Different_working_hours_in_terms_of_jobs_and_productivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_hours_in_South_Korea#D...
- throwaway080383 8y agoThat's fine, but then "hours worked" at best measures how much time was physically spent "at work", and will be entirely disconnected from how much time guys like McCarthy, Turing, Einstein, and Feynman thought about their research. They weren't doing it for the overtime pay.
- benatkin 8y agoI picture a lot of them living at their office, like Richard Stallman was in the Free as in Freedom [1]. If their managers had to worry about going to prison, they'd probably be prohibited from working at their offices. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom