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It's not a questionable aspect to be honest. This is her experience and decision. > I don't think that we should ever allow capitalists to deprive us of the es

It's not a questionable aspect to be honest. This is her experience and decision. > I don't think that we should ever allow capitalists to deprive us of the essentials, such as sleep Your strong claim is actually questionable. I can already think of one realistic scenario where pulling an all-nighter is a sensible choice like: you are on an H1B visa and, if you are fired, you would be beyond fucked with your life, so you pull an all nighter.

lapcat 3y ago
> It's not a questionable aspect to be honest. This is her experience and decision. I already addressed this point in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36887195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36887195 > I can already think of one realistic scenario where pulling an all-nighter is a sensible choice like: you are on an H1B visa and, if you are fired, you would be beyond fucked with your life, so you pull an all nighter. Perhaps. But this point still stands: "Certainly don't be proud of your needless sacrifices." I suspect that tech companies like to hire people on visas precisely because they can be abused like this.
- ergocoder 3y ago
  Abuse is a strong word for a situation where you earn 30x more than what you would earn back home, and the work culture is actually better even with some all-nighters. We must either move back to our home country or avoid doing all-nighters. We have no free will to make our own decision. We are to be labeled as an abused person forever. That is totally a sensible morality
  - lapcat 3y ago
    > Abuse is a strong word You said yourself: "if you are fired, you would be beyond fucked with your life, so you pull an all nighter." If you don't think that's abuse, I don't know what else to say. > We must either move back to our home country or avoid doing all-nighters. We have no free will to make our own decision. We are to be labeled as an abused person forever. I really don't understand what you're saying here, especially about "free will". My impression is that you seem to be implying with your response that bosses demanding all-nighters is fine, but a mere critical comment from a stranger on Hacker News has equal authority and power, somehow even worse and immoral. But that would be quite overdramatic, so maybe I'm misunderstanding.

lapcat 3y ago

> It's not a questionable aspect to be honest. This is her experience and decision. I already addressed this point in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36887195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36887195 > I can already think of one realistic scenario where pulling an all-nighter is a sensible choice like: you are on an H1B visa and, if you are fired, you would be beyond fucked with your life, so you pull an all nighter. Perhaps. But this point still stands: "Certainly don't be proud of your needless sacrifices." I suspect that tech companies like to hire people on visas precisely because they can be abused like this.

ergocoder 3y ago
Abuse is a strong word for a situation where you earn 30x more than what you would earn back home, and the work culture is actually better even with some all-nighters. We must either move back to our home country or avoid doing all-nighters. We have no free will to make our own decision. We are to be labeled as an abused person forever. That is totally a sensible morality
- lapcat 3y ago
  > Abuse is a strong word You said yourself: "if you are fired, you would be beyond fucked with your life, so you pull an all nighter." If you don't think that's abuse, I don't know what else to say. > We must either move back to our home country or avoid doing all-nighters. We have no free will to make our own decision. We are to be labeled as an abused person forever. I really don't understand what you're saying here, especially about "free will". My impression is that you seem to be implying with your response that bosses demanding all-nighters is fine, but a mere critical comment from a stranger on Hacker News has equal authority and power, somehow even worse and immoral. But that would be quite overdramatic, so maybe I'm misunderstanding.