This article was written about exploitative bosses, but applies
remarkably well to gurus and other cult leaders.
Don't Work Eighty Hours a Week for Elon Musk - Or Anyone
[www.vice.com]
"Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week".
Corboy note: Charles Darwin changed the world He reproitedly worked about four hours a day as did Charles Dickens.
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remarkably well to gurus and other cult leaders.
Don't Work Eighty Hours a Week for Elon Musk - Or Anyone
[www.vice.com]
"Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week".
Corboy note: Charles Darwin changed the world He reproitedly worked about four hours a day as did Charles Dickens.
[www.google.com]
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But in this system, he’s always going to try to pay you as little as possible, because it will allow him to keep more money. (Maybe he’ll reinvest in the company, maybe just buy a boat—if he’s a private equity type, it’s probably the latter.) When that avenue becomes blocked due to a contract, he’ll try to get more bang for his buck by continually blurring the line between “work” and “home” life. He’ll get you to stay after hours, tether you to your smartphone, or just give you tasks that were not at all what you signed up for.
The ultimate dream for any boss is getting one of their workers to believe that they’re part of something grander, that the project is worth the sacrifice, while not having to give them any stake in the company’s ownership. The utopia is for the world, but the profits are for him.
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Realistically, whatever Musk accomplishes during his life by instructing his hired help to make a variety of tech items will be less of a change to the world than what those who fought and died for the eight-hour work day
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and 40-hour work week, accomplished. You know, those folks in unions or who want to join one, the people Musk has long derided and been repeatedly accused of targeting for reprisal—a.k.a. union busting.
[www.theguardian.com]
People like these legitimately changed the material conditions of lives around the world in a way that Musk, or any boss, never will.
Most damning of all, supposedly visionary minds like Musk’s could never even dream of that sort of change.
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Now, imagine what “change” to your own personal world could mean. Might working fewer hours positively affect its quality? Would being able to allot more time in your limited existence to other activities like reading, writing, playing with your kids, exploring the world, or maybe just your own neighborhood, improve your quality of life? Probably! And yet that’s not what Musk tries to sell his potential workforce on, because that’s not even the world he’s trying to use his technological prowess to build. (Imagine going back to the year 1930 and telling someone about all the technological inventions we’ve made, and then watch their face drop when you let them know how many hours people still have to work.