Billionaire CEO: Work-Life Balance Is For The Weak
2026-04-23 15:42 UTC
Replies (37)
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@Steve@communick.news 2026-04-23 15:50
Says a guy who's never worked a job in his life. When you can expense a 2+ hour lunch with your friends as "working", he's right.
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 16:25
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@Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2026-04-23 20:17
The truth is that CEOs DO have work life balance. They have a kid sick? Nanny takes care of it. Need an short notice dr. visit? Just take a long lunch. Need to take care of those errands you forgot about? Just take care of them because who the fuck is going to say anything. They get freedom to deal with life that us regular workers would get written up for and fired. Their position allows them to do whatever the fuck they want because they aren't doing actual work.
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@electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2026-04-24 02:34
Allowing billionaires to exist is for the weak.
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@hamid@crazypeople.online 2026-04-23 17:51
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@Rooskie91@discuss.online 2026-04-23 16:05
Then sell all your yachts and work in a mine, coward.
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@ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2026-04-23 18:02
He's right, it should be way unbalanced to the life side. Anyway, kill all billionaires
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@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-23 22:10
Classic sheltered rich white guy: "I have a lot of money and nobody contradicts me, therefore my every opinion and how I do (or pretend to do) things are always correct! Everyone claiming otherwise have less money, which proves them incorrect! I know this because having a lot of money is proof that I'm the best at everything and always right, which is the reason I have all that money, not any privilege I was born with or otherwise got handed to me that the vast majority of people do not!" Anyways, what's the going rate for a guillotine these days?
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@Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-24 00:29
Give this guy a minimum wage job
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@mikenurre@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 16:07
Player 2, please connect your controller. We need Luigi to beat this.
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@peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 03:49
Heads attached to bodies needs to become optional for these people.
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@desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 23:55
so is nepotism
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@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 20:57
A CEO is someone with a cakewalk job, who, if they can be said to do any actual "work" at all, certainly doesn't work full time doing it in the same sense that their employees do (how else would you have someone who is CEO of multiple companies?). They have absurd incomes that frees them from absolutely any financial concerns. They travel the world like it is nothing. They have time to spend talking to interviewers and on panels like this douche about how we don't work enough. Any CEO tries to tell me that they are in the position they are because they "wake up and start work at 5 am, don't sleep until 1am, never clocked out, blah blah blah" and that's why they deserve to be paid more per year than I'll make in my lifetime will be lucky to not limp away from that conversation.
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@digital_man@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 16:40
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@AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2026-04-23 17:47
Good! If he thinks it's weak, let's send him to the mines for the 996 treatment. Oh, and cut him off from society while we're at it. I call it "work retreat".
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@MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 2026-04-23 18:14
I want to see him work two twelve hours days in a row, operating a jackhammer.
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@KingGordon@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 16:27
Ok boomer.
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@e461h@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-24 11:53
> No. 1 priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job. A healthcare ceo, no less
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@Birch@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-24 18:27
I do have to agree on one thing, if you like your job, you don't watch the hours tick down to 5. I am lucky that I always ended up working jobs that I enjoy doing. But I also know, that this is not true for many people where a job is just a means for paying rent and groceries and do whatever job they can manage to hold on to.
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@betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 11:43
Translation: "The rest of you losers should work your lives away so us billionaires can enjoy ours".
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@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 14:36
How many companies is Elon Musk a CEO of? CEO is a part time job at best. I'm not going to take mental health advice from someone with untreated mental illness.
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@Pissed@lemmy.ml 2026-04-23 16:50
Honestly I agree that if people were not alienated from their labor they would probably want to work more.
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 02:05
Good. Let them work themselves to death, then. Less billionaires would be good for the world.
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@GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2026-04-24 14:28
I'm dreaming of a red christmas
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@trilobite@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 05:21
These billion assholes are the one that have never washed a dish, cleaned their toilet, grown up their kids, renovated their home with their own hands, looked after their vegetable garden so that you eat decent food without spending o fortune ... they just live at another level so they cant compare themselves to ordinary people. They are what i call "the super-ego-idiots"
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@Bloefz@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 22:23
"If you don't like your job don't do that job." Says a guy rolling in money with no financial worries. Lol. Some people are so out of touch from the real world. Cool if you can go like hey let's take the jet to Jamaica for the weekend. You do you bro but don't pretend you know how we have to live our life.
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@captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 19:05
Yeah, I'm married and would like to stay that way so I'm going home after 8 hours
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@architect@thelemmy.club 2026-04-23 23:48
I agree when you’re the ceo. But regular people shouldn’t care that much about other people’s businesses.
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@Reygle@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 09:26
"I would very much like to be next"
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@slemptastrophe@piefed.social 2026-04-23 19:06
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@comfy@lemmy.ml 2026-04-24 01:21
Work-life balance is for the capitalists Work-life synergy is the future - we need to build a society+economy that focuses on doing work that promotes life. When did the two become separated?
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@Grass@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 23:55
The billdren long for the mines
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@WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2026-04-24 16:43
To be fair, he does have a point about the job. If your job does not suck, you might want to do more overtime in it? Sadly, that's like one in 10 million jobs where you are like a chocolate taste tester, or bed tester.
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@UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 08:09
I feel like a test of strength is in order
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@racoon@lemmy.ml 2026-04-23 19:24
Fewer hours at home = fewer quarrels with the kids More hours at work = more time earning money = less time wasting money
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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-04-25 09:02
If it is your own company then sure do whatever the fuck you feel like with your life (at the expense of your kids growing up emotionally deprived). Don't expect others to the same for your fucking company unless you are sharing the profits you turd for brains and take your diarrhea of ideas elsewhere.
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@Athena5898@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 17:36
I guess we should get our lazy asses to the guillotine.