Kotak’s CEO says Indians should work 84 hours a week (hellobanker.in)

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago

Fun fact: According to the Indian Constitution, India is a "socialist secular Republic". India had incredibly powerful unions till the 90s. After that, liberalisation happened (which led to significant economic progress). This however, destroyed all socialist institutions that were in place.

It has become so bad, that the wealth inequality is now more than it was under the fucking British Raj.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Are you suggesting we send the Brits back in? They fantasize about the old empire a lot lately...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Except the guy leading the fantasy party is Indian

So thats really weird.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair, BoJo Muppet hair dreamt of it before. And many others as well.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago

As long as executives work 84 hours / week as well, sure, why not?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

Caveat: they'll need to subject themselves to video monitoring to ensure they stay engaged at their desk, and if an AI detects negative body language their pay will be docked.

The hours they will be required to work will be determined the Sunday before and will be effectively random.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Golf is work. Just ask the former POTUS.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

Says the guy who probably works that in a year

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

all of them combined? They will have a lot of free time then! Amazing!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

India's total population is 1,428,627,663. Let's say just one billion are actively working.

84hrs/1,000,000,000 roughly equals 0.0003 seconds of effective work time per citizen and per week. That's indeed very generous... so much so in fact that I suspect there's a catch -CEOs aren't usually this benevolent.

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