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I generally like Vivek but I’ve been highly, highly skeptical of Elon for years now.

That said, this whole H1B thing just smells like fiat corporate CEOs doing what they do - squeezing their employees for everything they can.

I have worked with people currently in India but also from India. Their work culture is COMPLETELY different. 16-18 hours a day, 6 days a week, employment contract with 90 day notice periods, etc.

I once worked on a team half in the US half India. My manager (from India but living in US) would scream at them and berate them every single morning, but was very kind to the US employees. We’re very lucky to be shielded from that abuse.

Corporate CEOs want to push employees to work this hard as much as they possibly can. They don’t like that American workers are “lazy” compared to international counterparts.
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Keith 1y ago

I don’t completely disagree. However, in my own personal story and the story of many of my contemporaries, people like us that spend all their waking hours working do it to get out of the rat race. Spend 16 hours a day working towards your own goals for 20 years here in the US and you’ll either be financially independent well before the average retirement age or you’ll have hardly progressed at all. If someone spends 20 years working 16 hour days and they don’t progress, whose fault is that, really?

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Currency of Distrust 1y ago

Well, I think it really depends. If you’re working 16 hours for a corp, in all likelihood you’ll just be on a treadmill not really progressing. Of course, you can blame the person for not doing it for themselves in some way, but my point is that corporations want to make this the norm. Fiat pretty much demands it, at some point.