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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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.

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