This Indian CEO champions the 70-hour grind, dismisses work-life balance as "Western" concept

I feel sorry for that guy. Most people work to make their life better. If he is really working 20 hours a day then he has no life. What is the point of life if all you do is work? What are you working for? I suspect the guy is lying though. If he has time for social media he probably isn't actually working very much at all. Being in an office and on social media is not actually working and that time doesn't count.

Darth Shiv said:

20 hours of work a day is baking his brain. Call that purpose? Life? Hilarious.

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GoldenGoat said:

I feel sorry for that guy. Most people work to make their life better. If he is really working 20 hours a day then he has no life. What is the point of life if all you do is work? What are you working for?

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Posts such as these highlight the decay of modern culture. If you're flipping burgers for a living, admittedly it may be hard to see any value in work beyond the weekly paycheck, but those with useful, productive careers are more likely to be motivated by more than simply money -- and CEOs of crucial businesses are just as invaluable to society as are firefighters and heart surgeons.

For many people "work" is anything but -- it's rewarding in itself. Many writers and artists go through creative bursts where they work 80+ hours a week, and some amateur athletes like Olympic hopefuls may spend as much time training. And most of the research academics I know effectively spend nearly every waking hour "working": continually turning over problems and solutions in their head. Do you need to ask what all these people are working for?

Arguments such as those above become particularly ironic when a person who flees the office on Friday goes home to spend an entire weekend playing videogames, games that simulate virtual progress in a virtual world. They can identify with that -- but not those who prefer real progression in the real world.

One could counter the work argument with "I'm spending time with family". Unfortunately, the people who most loudly voice this argument tend to be single or childless couples. At the end of your respective lives, do you believe the person who can say "I built a billion-dollar enterprise that changed the world" is any less happy than the one who says, "I spent my life boozing it up with my buddies"?

Wow! what a hard worker. I'm glad he's not skipping meals

Let me guess Bhavish Aggarwal. When you were younger you applied for a US visa and got denied? Poor guy. Now he’s on a “hate the west” campaign. He needs to quit being a soul sucking low life and quit abusing his own people.

BigMeatyClackers said:

Wow! what a hard worker. I'm glad he's not skipping meals

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He definitely doesn’t skip the Naan.

Going to join the harmony and add that this CEO is as daft as a brush, should be horse-whipped or better yet, dragged through the streets by his unmentionable dangly bits.

ZedRM said:

this CEO [should] be horse-whipped or better yet, dragged through the streets by his unmentionable dangly bits.

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You're advocating physical violence against someone for disagreeing with your world-view: that spending 70 hours a week working productively is a more fulfilling experience than spending the same amount of time video-gaming?

Yeah, that's why all the Indians have been moving to the US for the past fifty years or so...

Postone said:

Yeah, that's why all the Indians have been moving to the US for the past fifty years or so...

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Indian immigrants to the US total about 94,000 per year. Out of a population of 1.42 billion, that works out to 0.006%. Meanwhile, more than 2.2 million people are born into India each year.

Seems 'all the Indians' aren't doing what you think they are.