Kunal Shah's remarks are somewhat similar to what Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy said a few days ago when he asked youngsters to work harder if they wanted to see India compete with China and become number one or two in terms of GDP.
"We see an extraordinary execution (in China). It's called 9-9-6 culture - 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. And you see that progress. We cannot have the ambition of being a 10-20 trillion dollar economy and still expect that life should be chill,"
yeah and everyone's tired of it there and moving away from it. and what does he think Indian workers in the private sector do? they don't get Saturdays off, they are always forced to work overtime, its why everyone in India wants a public sector job in the first place.
India's terrible economic situation isn't because people aren't working hard enough but because there is no work in the first place (especially for college-educated people). China managed to build productive forces by forcing capitalists to do what the state wants whereas Indian state is controlled by capitalists directly.
the low productivity is a failure of capitalism, not workers.
Foreword: I believe that the Chinese model is superior to western "work/life" balance and that the extra "free" time given to employees is no longer sustainable as of today's economy, unless it is used for a second job.
Given this, I don't quite get the difference between "sacrificing for the country", as Indian entrepreneurs are advocating for, and the Chinese model. Why do we Lemmings tend to blame India for being exploitative but praise China for being fair?
Only privileged tankies are praising China. Also fuck the Chinese 996 model. Give me “western” work/life balance anytime of the week. That exploitative shit is not sustainable for the economy and the country. Like nobody is having children in China, South Korea and Japan, because they don’t have the time and money to raise them.
Because liberal 'reforms' resulted in actually increased standard of living in China for everyone while in India only top 10% benefited. There is a reason why China is near first world in Global Hunger Index while India is near the bottom.
I didn't say neither India nor China is 'fair' or 'exploitative' in the first comment. The conditions are completely different. What are you talking about?
Just what exactly do these assholes think the point of life is. Also pretty rich to talk about work life balance when all of your national wealth is being siphoned off by a giant pulsating leech that is the “enlightened west”
To quote Michael Parenti India isn’t underdeveloped it’s overexploited
The point of their life is to collect all the wealth "they deserve" from plebes that will never rise to their level because, in their mind, these people don't work hard enough
Makes sense, I mean, why should I enjoy any of my time while I'm alive? Seems pretty silly to waste my life doing things that make me happy and satisfied when I could be making some rando way richer.....
See, I wouldn't be so against this if there were a real promise behind it aside from some "atta-girl"s and "atta-boy"s. Salaried employees aren't going to make an extra 100% for double work. I probably wouldn't be half as productive, on top of gaining a disdain for life.
I can see right through Shah's and other CEO's plans: Normalize slaving yourself to your job just so that we can pay you the same or less in real terms.