Then I’m investigating in pitchforks.

Your spell checker warrants an investigation.

Crazy, clearly. Might have some brain parasite?

IFF your job offers purpose and fulfils you, and you really enjoy doing it you can work crazy hours. Look at researchers. One does not work as a researcher, one is a researcher, the interest in the chosen subject drives them onwards.

Those of us with mundane jobs don't. We also don't get a bajillion dollars in "compensation", we get a salary. We also have to take care of mundane tasks like laundry, shopping, and dropping the kids off at sports / music lessons / chess boxing / whatever. We cannot pay people to do all of that for us, unlike this person that I think is an ultra rich and disconnected from reality idiot. We also like spending time with our families.

Also: If you sleep four hours it does not mean you are working 20 hours. You need to eat at some point (and, well, excrete, though this guy apparently does it perfectly through his mouth and through Xitter), get a haircut, see a GP or a dentist and a million other things. This does not normally count as work for us.

He also seems to have a beef with Western culture as well as a lot of post-colonial resentment, but doesn't explain why a whole generation of young people in his own country should now do 'penance' by working ridiculous hours just because he does.

Do we also get to count sitting on the toilet "coming up with" new ideas as work?

@Joe W

Tell me more about this "chess boxing" -- inquiring minds need to know.

https://indoorgameinsights.com/what-is-chess-boxing/

... he works 20 hours a day, seven days a week

Then he's either a liar or a fool.

Working that long and sleeping 4 hours a day is a recipe for poor decisions, confusion and burn-out.

On the other hand he seems to be well balanced, a chip on both shoulders. I agree with simonlb he comes over as someone who cannot let go of the past and what on Earth does doing "penance" mean.

He is one of those people who lives to work and condemns others who work to live and I am glad that I do not have to work for him.

Working that long and sleeping 4 hours a day is a recipe for poor decisions, confusion and burn-out.

Burn-out is fine, if the employee is easily replaceable. The philosophy is productivity mixed with the mythical man month. Have 20hr days, need fewer employees. Have employee paid for a 20hr day but charged out based on 8hr day + overtime and rejoice at the profits. But as you say, the majority of people can't work a 20hr day, mistakes get made by tired workers and any productivity gains are quickly lost dealing with the mistakes. Employees are people, not just resources. Work'em too hard and performance suffers and they break.

If the dude works 20 hours a day, then he is not sleeping for 4 hours.

Let us be generous, and suggest that he manages to wash, eat all the day's meals, commute to and from work and take all his toilet-time compressed into an hour, that leaves him with 3 hours for sleep.

Does he look like a ragged unkept wreck of a man?

No?

Then he is lying or counting a lot of non-work stuff as work.

Narcisistic prick

One other way in which he isn't wrong - there's a new generation that is going to have to pay for the collective selfishness and overconsumption of their parents and grandparents. I wouldn't call it 'penance' though, that's taking the consequences for your own actions. Rather they will have to take the consequences of other people's actions:

1) Massive debt in all western countries, accrued like there's no tomorrow, helped along by the assumption that low interest rates will last forever. That debt will have to be repaid by future generations, whether by taxation or inflation.

2) The continued ignorance around the looming social security disaster. FFS France just torpedoed the only adult in the room who was willing to face the facts that if your population is living 10 years longer, you have to increase retirement age by 6-7 years. But they couldn't stomach even a 3 year increase. But that's just the extreme case, social security will be bankrupt everywhere in a decade or so. Bonus idiot points for those who are against immigrant workers - whose taxes are going to pay your pension when you're retired? And who's going to take care of you and nurse you when you're too infirm to take care of yourself?

Man who relies on other people working to generate his ludicrous income, demands those other people work ludicrous hours in order to earn him even more ludicrous income.

Here's Tom with the weather...

(What an asshat! Since what he's advocating is actually illegal (even in India), what are the chances he's going to be charged with encouraging law breaking? *crickets chirping *... Didn't think so...)

"Get fucked." says humanity.

> Aggarwal told India outlet ANI News that he works 20 hours a day, seven days a week

Uh huh. Pull the other one, it's got bells on. Does he think "checking my texts every so often" constitutes work? I used to have co-workers like that.

When they pay me for 70 hours a week, I'll work 70 hours a week. Wait, what? you want those extra hours for free? Nope, not happenin', Mr. Techbro.

Right now, I work 10 hours a day... but I get paid 10 hours a day, and I get every Friday off. And honestly, it lets me turn off the phone and get "in the zone" for a while and crack out some code.

"I'll be out of the office due to (possibly-or-possibly-not valid reason), but I'll be checking voicemail and email."

So managers are paid full wages for quasi-working, but when the rank-and-file workers can't make it to the office due to (valid reason), we have to take unpaid leave.

Some possibilities:

1. He's simply lying about his working 20 hours/day, 7 days/week.

2. He has the ability to work in in his sleep.

3. He's using Bolivian marching powder to stay semi-conscious 20 hours/day, and it's making him mentally unbalanced.

4. His innate God-like genetics allow him to transcend the biological need for sleep.

See: "When I was Your Age" by Wierd Al Yankovic @:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SnAF2o5y63w

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Can one every have enough Weird Al references in a comments thread? Didn't think so. And screw all the techbros, let's go live in an Amish Paradise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg

1. He's simply lying about his working 20 hours/day, 7 days/week.

2. He has the ability to work in in his sleep.

3. He's using Bolivian marching powder to stay semi-conscious 20 hours/day, and it's making him mentally unbalanced.

4. His innate God-like genetics allow him to transcend the biological need for sleep.

Probably the superposition of all four.

This box wallah is decidedly doolally (Deolali.)

If he and fellow travellers were to have their way the poor working sods on the subcontinent would probably have been better off under Clive (perhaps not quite, but still...)

The insane, patently unwinnable war on the past serves only to distract the deluded polloi from the ills of the present, their contemporary causes and potential remedies, usually to the enrichment of the warmongers.

So much to pick at but this:

We used to spend ₹100 crore [about $12 million] a year but we've made that 0 this month by moving completely to our in house Ola maps!"

I mean that's total bullshit, because your data centre et al doesn't run for free. Maybe you're doing some tax fiddle to get the cost to appear zero to you and a loss to some other business arm, which sounds like it's probably screwing your countries economy a little into the bargain. What a hero.

It is his perogative to work as many hours as he likes, and he is extremely well financially rewarded for doing so. To ask salaried people to work that many hours is the height of narsacistic bullcrap.

doing 20 hours a day, manual labour e.g. in India still lots of small scale non mechanised farms, where you still need to manually till the soil, milk the cattle etc.

He wouldn't last a day, never mind a week.

Tweeting & pontificating is not work, its narcissistic self aggrandisement (and seems to be a lot of his "work" hours)

> It is exactly what happened 200 years ago with the East India Company

Not quite. Back then we came in with guns and forced you to do it. Now like a diabetic in a sweet shop you're doing it to yourself.

It seems like only England learned the lesson from its centuries of oppression that oppression comes back to bite you in the arse. Or chop off your head.

When Deng took over China in 1976 the GDP per capita of China was lower than that of England in the middle ages, people in China had a lower quality of life than medieval peasants. Now China is a rapidly developing country and a regional power.

If you want to see why India has not been able to replicate this (despite starting with a much higher level of wealth and development) then the stupidity being spouted by the moron in this article is a good example.

Funnily enough, he doesn't seem to have too much against outcomes of Western thought processes such as capitalism, self enrichment or any of the technologies he's used to achieve his position in life. No, it's just the bit where workers don't want to have to spend every waking hour enriching their boss that he objects to.

Considering how hard he says he works, he also doesn't seem to have been capable of coming up with any better idea than simply copying ideas that were successful in the "West" that he derides. In fact, even his "work all hours" idea is just a copy of somebody else's idea. How many hours of work does it really take to tell your minions "Copy this thing. Copy that thing"? About 15 minutes a week should be more than enough.