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Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks — Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems::Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

In 20 years such people will be calling for literal slave labor.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They already do something like that (want to raise work hours and make full time contracts mandatory) in the developing economy of, no joke, Germany.

Employers are an entitled bunch of assholes over here.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

“Still” be calling for slave labor.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Slave labor, now rebranded as Patriot Labor^tm^ Are you doing your part?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Republican states have already been chipping away at child labour laws. Not quite the same thing, but abhorrent nevertheless.

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