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0 pointsgeezerjay7y ago0 comments

> Aren't young people allowed to, well, be young though?

Working all-nighters to the point your health starts to suffer is not being young. It's exploitation the likes of which the chapters on the industrial revolution warn us about.

More importantly, we as a society should actively discourage this sort of abuse. It makes no sense to let our health waste away just because a manager wants to boast about a target or a deadline.

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sincerely7y ago

If I'm pulling an all-nighter coding, it's sure as hell going to be on my own project. I think that's the context of the convo

SZJX7y ago

The OP wrote:

> "coding all day and all night on relatively minor problems to make somebody else five figures a week"

which makes no sense. Of course if one ever codes outside of the day job one should code for their own project, but that's not what the OP was suggesting.

sincerely7y ago

Oh, I must have missed that. My apologies :)

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sincerely7y ago

If I'm pulling an all-nighter coding, it's sure as hell going to be on my own project. I think that's the context of the convo

SZJX7y ago

The OP wrote:

> "coding all day and all night on relatively minor problems to make somebody else five figures a week"

which makes no sense. Of course if one ever codes outside of the day job one should code for their own project, but that's not what the OP was suggesting.

sincerely7y ago

Oh, I must have missed that. My apologies :)

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