The Economics of Working 80 Hours or More a Week

>> And realistically, the average person's capacity and willingness to do back-to-back all-nighters, or to sleep on the floor of the office, and to answer the last email of the day four hours before sending the first email of the next day, will diminish with age. But the pacing of these deals does not diminish, and in many cases transactions are bottlenecked by decisions from the most senior person on the team, who is also likely to be the oldest.

OR some young upstart makes the call and the old one is OUT, or you miss the deal and your competitor gets it.

And if your young and reading this saying "My corporation doesn't love me and this isnt fair and im not going to do that" ... You're free to say that. Your free to punch the clock, to quiet quit, to do what you please. Just know that in a lot of places you're swimming with sharks, or playing with predators... The laws of nature apply and you will fall behind.

And when I, the old guy tut tut you and your choices to slack. Its not because I dont get it, its because I know that the game isnt gonna change and your wasting the potential.

Do your 10,000 hours. Pay your dam dues down as fast as you can, good things will follow. Or go slow and get eaten.

you die younger

you have no life

serious psychological brain damage carried over into older years.

brainwashed into thinking that being competitive is the only way to earn money

you are still only earning an hourly wage even though your weekly wage packet looks bigger

the employer is the only beneficiary

The boss sitting in his office thinking, "look at all those brain dead muppets working for me".