We Don't Believe in Work-Life Balance

Every random unknown business now truly believes that they have built something novel and revolutionary. They have the audacity to see difficult things being invented by geniuses and think "wow, I can do it too". They think that they must succeed at all costs; their employees must work unlimited hours and they must use unlimited resources because nothing is more important.

It's kind of sad to watch, knowing that in a couple years nobody will care and their company will have produced nothing of value, while the negative consequences of their "progress at all costs" will still be felt by individuals and the world.

Re: We Don't Believe in Work-Life Balance

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Post by marcusb » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:09 PM UTC

To borrow from the old saying, he may not believe in work-life balance, but work-life balance believes in him. He isn't building a "performance culture", he's gambling (whether he realizes it or not) on a liquidity event or reaching some sort of competitive moat before employee burnout, turnover, and technical debt overwhelms the company.

Re: We Don't Believe in Work-Life Balance

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Post by usernamed7 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:34 PM UTC

this is such a shortsighted and myopic view. And wrong, it's also wrong. We should stop giving people like this a voice because they are the dumbest people to be listening to. Maybe this makes sense in cultures were 80 hour work weeks is a norm, but it's not the way things are done in the west and with good history.