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China is definitely extreme but you don't have to go too far to see overworked people, it's much more common in the US than people realize. Everyone is overwork

China is definitely extreme but you don't have to go too far to see overworked people, it's much more common in the US than people realize. Everyone is overworked. I think that Starbucks got popular partially due to this.

ryanmercer 8y ago
> it's much more common in the US than people realize. Everyone is overworked. Indeed, Alexis Ohanian has been speaking out about this very recently too.
- adamnemecek 8y ago
  Link? Is this it? https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/reddit-hustle-porn-alexis-ohanian-tech-silicon-valley-web-summit-a8621696.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
  - ryanmercer 8y ago
    Check his twitter and LinkedIn as I've seen him touch on it on both recently, but yeah that's one of the articles I've seen. I think this is the first one I saw https://qz.com/work/1458073/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-is-taking-a-stand-against-hustle-porn/ https://qz.com/work/1458073/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian...
TangoTrotFox 8y ago
The problem with this is that numerically we work far less than ever before. We work nearly 200 fewer hours per year today than we did just a few decades ago! [1] I think people's discontent is about something much more fundamental. People's lives are pretty pointless. In times past, I think war, overt inequity, and nationalism gave people things to fight for. That's not to say we live in a utopia now a days, of course far from it. But the causes for our problems today are far less clear and solutions even less so. And so what is the point of people's lives? This hypothesis I also think helps explain the explosive rise in things ranging from 'internet activism' which often results in little more than hurting mostly innocent individuals to the sharp increase in radicalism and division in US politics when actual differences, in spite of rhetoric, are little more than two sides of the same coin. People are trying to find meaning in their lives and its manifesting as it always has throughout humanity's history - division and conflict. [1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP

ryanmercer 8y ago

> it's much more common in the US than people realize. Everyone is overworked. Indeed, Alexis Ohanian has been speaking out about this very recently too.

adamnemecek 8y ago
Link? Is this it? https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/reddit-hustle-porn-alexis-ohanian-tech-silicon-valley-web-summit-a8621696.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
- ryanmercer 8y ago
  Check his twitter and LinkedIn as I've seen him touch on it on both recently, but yeah that's one of the articles I've seen. I think this is the first one I saw https://qz.com/work/1458073/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-is-taking-a-stand-against-hustle-porn/ https://qz.com/work/1458073/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian...

TangoTrotFox 8y ago

The problem with this is that numerically we work far less than ever before. We work nearly 200 fewer hours per year today than we did just a few decades ago! [1] I think people's discontent is about something much more fundamental. People's lives are pretty pointless. In times past, I think war, overt inequity, and nationalism gave people things to fight for. That's not to say we live in a utopia now a days, of course far from it. But the causes for our problems today are far less clear and solutions even less so. And so what is the point of people's lives? This hypothesis I also think helps explain the explosive rise in things ranging from 'internet activism' which often results in little more than hurting mostly innocent individuals to the sharp increase in radicalism and division in US politics when actual differences, in spite of rhetoric, are little more than two sides of the same coin. People are trying to find meaning in their lives and its manifesting as it always has throughout humanity's history - division and conflict. [1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP