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Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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It's much easier talk about integrating life and work and shun compartmentalization of work when you see much more direct returns from the output of your work/not work, rather than having a fixed salary.

I would say, almost the opposite: It is much easier if you essentially do not have to work anymore and you can do it just for the kick of it. Like starting a space race.

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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It's easy to be 1000% dedicated to your job when you make over $9,000,000 an hour. But he wants the same dedication from people he pays $6.

He's also vicious about crushing unions and is known for giving employees so little breaks they have to piss in bottles.

Fuck Bezos. The US has a real problem with wealth worship. People lap up every drop that comes out of this asshole just because he's a million times richer than everyone else. So they think he's a million times smarter.

Jeff Bezos is a rich asshole and treats his employees like toilet paper. It's laughable that anyone would take life advice from this clown

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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It's funny how unlikable that guy is. There is still time to sign the petition that would have Bezos stay in space after his upcoming launch [1][2]. Once it hits 150,000 signatures shortly, it will likely generate another set of headlines, which is one (if somewhat silly) way to hurt the guy.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/how-a-petition-to-keep-jeff-...

[2] https://www.change.org/p/the-proletariat-do-not-allow-jeff-b...

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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Debilitating to a few men's fortunes perhaps, but richly rewarding to the thousands of people with a broader outlook to life.

Bezos holds fair amount of respect for his accomplishments, but statements like these make him sound more like Mr. Burns than anyone. Just trying to extract maximum output out of his labourers. I for one am fairly surprised by the shamelessness demonstrated by some of these excess haves.

Reminds me of another billionaire egging on people for 60 hour weeks at a time when his company was raking in record profits due to the covid IT boom - https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/indians-should-work-60...

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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> "If I am happy at home, I come into the office with tremendous energy," Bezos said. "And if I am happy at work, I come home with tremendous energy."

Surely that same thinking goes the other way: if you are having a rough time at home and it's clearly affecting your work performance, Amazon understands and tries to improve your home situation since real life is intertwined with work, right?

Right?

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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The more Bezos opens his mouth, the more he sounds like he wants to be neo robber baron.

He has been for a while. Bezos is richer than most kings. People are dying of starvation and Bezos makes $2500 per second.

We have billionaires competing over who will go to space first, because they simply have nothing better to do with their money.

It's disgusting really. Yet somehow articles about what these assholes eat for breakfast still get to the front page

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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post #16

Debilitating to a few men's fortunes perhaps, but richly rewarding to the thousands of people with a broader outlook to life. Bezos holds fair amount of respect for his accomplishments, but statements like these make him sound more like Mr. Burns than anyone. Just trying to extract maximum output out of his labourers. I for one am fairly surprised by the shamelessness demonstrated by some of these excess haves. Remin…

I see a pattern here...:-)

"Alibaba’s Jack Ma calls the ‘996’ — China’s 72-hour workweek — a ‘huge blessing’"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alibabas-jack-ma-calls-the...

Re: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'

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post #19
post #16

Debilitating to a few men's fortunes perhaps, but richly rewarding to the thousands of people with a broader outlook to life. Bezos holds fair amount of respect for his accomplishments, but statements like these make him sound more like Mr. Burns than anyone. Just trying to extract maximum output out of his labourers. I for one am fairly surprised by the shamelessness demonstrated by some of these excess haves. Remin…

I see a pattern here...:-) "Alibaba’s Jack Ma calls the ‘996’ — China’s 72-hour workweek — a ‘huge blessing’" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alibabas-jack-ma-calls-the...

Jack Ma is a business dude. But Bezos was a programmer and that makes my heart sink low
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