Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule
www.wired.com
In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8599572

Yes I know it’s le ebil Shenzhen 996 Work schedule

comments from r/Trueanon

I feel like China’s invocation in this article is to make the argument to adopt these labor practices so we can “keep pace” with the CCP.

Of course, we have no plans to adopt China’s stance on public investment in infrastructure, research, or transportation. Those are all frivolous uses of taxpayer dollars. If we just commit to work more hours per week than they do, we will surely prevail.

{Stupid} asf, jack ma was inspired by tales of us dropouts living in the office during their startups

literally the progenitors of the practice goin “wut r we da asans???” fuck off

progenitors of two shots to the back of the head goin “dae russian window??”

americans love being hypocrites and love even more to drop a “uhm wataboutism” when you point this out

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It’s all to make it more appealing to investors - “we’re lean and hungry, look at all these nerds putting in long hours for our B2B SaaS” and the end product doesn’t really matter as long as it convinces a private equity guy to value the company at $10b because it’s the first step in dominating the data warehousing space and they don’t really care how it gets done.