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I'd shorten that to:

> Contrary to what this VC believes, it is NOT okay to expect someone to "work 60 hours a week at Facebook"

Let's get one of these already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive

I suspect that tech workers already have that ability for themselves. Don't want to work 60 hours a week at Facebook? Great; don't.

What they don't have is the ability to prevent others from doing it. Personally, I like that and hated working in Germany where I was forced to stop working because of an arbitrary hours limit per week.

While that might apply to some BigCo there's large parts of tech that would really benefit from a WTD(GameDev I'm looking at you).

> What they don't have is the ability to prevent others from doing it

Yes they do. They have a law.

Citation needed [that tech workers have the ability to prevent others from working 60 hours per week at Facebook].

Vote for politicians who support such a law. Join/form a union that will campaign for that sort of law. Talk to your friends and family to tell them that such a law should be brought in.

That's the thing. I oppose such a law and prefer the status quo in the US. But others who do believe in it should feel free to lobby for such a law.

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