Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again called for longer working weeks has returned, this time with an emphasis on schedules like the 996-pattern used in parts of China.

Murthy’s comments revive a debate which began in 2024, when he argued that Indian employees should work 70 hours a week.

  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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    4 小时前

    I am not an advocate of slavery generally speaking but I do think that it is a just and righteous thing to enslave someone like this and to use them for backbreaking labour for 20 hours per day.

    Like. Make it pointless too. Dig this hole. Fill that hole. Dig it again.

    Feed them stuff you find in dumpsters. Beat them if their hole digging is going to slow. Test cosmetics on them. Sell them to be used for sex.

    That seems right to me.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      You’re using the word “slavery” rhetorically, more or less, but in the eyes of a Sociopathic Oligarch, we are already living on literal slave wages. They couldn’t imagine living on the average annual income in this country, but they expect us to, and work harder on top of it.

      They would pay us nothing, like the olden days, but then they’d have to cover our food and housing, and that would cost them more. So they pay us just barely enough to keep us from revolting.

      We are already slaves.

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        1 小时前

        No I’m not.

        I mean we literally force people like this into irons and force them to work under threat of corporal punishment.

        There’s what, maybe 10, 20,000 people like this the world over?

        It would be a one time thing. If they managed to have kids before they died from exhaustion or the unforeseen results of pharmaceutical experiments their children would be given good homes and loving adoptive parents, so we didn’t risk reviving the institution of slavery. It would be a one time thing. Justice.

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      Nah, just…make them work regular hours for a pay of an ordinary employee. They could take extra hours to earn more and demonstrate to everyone how to “work hard and earn big”. This will be cruelest punishment they can get.

      Oh, and put them on a KPI and control their work productivity.