Death March Culture

For context, a death march is one of those lovely 80+ hour work-weeks to grind out some bit of software or the other, and the associated grind out some of those involved, by way of burn-out, health problems, etc. Or, a death march could be to keep the rails from falling off some Internet service as the load scales to handle the very Christian late-year consumerism bing, where someone may work all through Black Friday and still be working come Sigh Bear Monday.

As counterpoint, Bertrand Russell did pen "In Praise of Idleness".

Now, if a Vaishya wishes to hold up their right hand for the rest of their life, how does this differ from a C-Suite who wishes to work those 80+ hours each and every week? Ascetic gonna ascetic; they both are off the norm. And who knows what wisdom might be gained? The problem, as Betrand points out, is forcing others to conform to the orthoxody. Slavery, in other words.

tags #politics