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In the note, shared internally and viewed by the New York Times, Brin urges staff working on Google’s Gemini AI projects to put in long hours to help the company lead the race in artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Some have praised Brin’s commitment to pushing the company’s success, but others argue that his approach reflects an outdated and harmful mindset.

“The hustle-centric 60-hour week isn’t productivity—it’s burnout waiting to happen,” wrote workplace mental health educator Catherine Eadie in a post shared by LinkedIn’s news editors.

Others said they feel that hard work is essential for success, with a COO of a business analytics business writing, “Brin is just being honest—successful people have always put in long hours."

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[–] OmarDontScare@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well, if Sergey Brin wants to work 60 hour weeks, be my guest. Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class, since they should really justify what they're paid.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class

Mate, he's a class or two ABOVE the CEO class. He's in the "trillionaire soon maybe?" class where you don't get to be by just being a CEO, you have to own major stock in a massively overvalued company that just keeps on growing.

He should be working at LEAST 50000 hour weeks to justify his continued growth of wealth at this point. Why the lazy bastard isn't doing it is beyond me.

[–] OmarDontScare@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree! I use CEO in that way, but yeah, he is definitely an uber rich asshole, who is paid way more than could ever be fair. Definitely more than could ever be what he 'deserves' or 'earns'.

Right now, i think some of these people are absolutely unable to participate in society because they literally exist outside of the normal bounds, far outside of them. And exactly that will create major problems, well it already has and we're living through it. What's to keep these assholes from actually demanding this kind of work hours from workers? Like, they will do so, absolutely, once you let them.

I'm just not at all sure in what way in the current liberal system, we're able to limit the wealth and power of these individuals. Yeah, taxes of course, but these people are so deeply connected to political class and are able to bully the legal system... So, that's a hard challenge there.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Right now, i think some of these people are absolutely unable to participate in society because they literally exist outside of the normal bounds, far outside of them.

Yeah. These are people for whom a carton eggs could cost $5000 and it wouldn't really matter. Not because they're eating steak or salmon for most meals, but because the difference between $5 and $5000 is negligible.

They're Lucille Bluth, but 10000x as rich as the Bluth family ever even pretended to be

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

And plus they say that they do all of the work, remember?