re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?

We're probably not being told the whole story. If you're consistently working 80-100 hours a week from a desk job, you didn't die from the work itself, you probably died from abusing stimulants, whether that be caffeine or, most likely, Adderall, and then, obviously, no sleep.

To do that amount of hours on a consistent basis, stimulants are almost always involved.

I used to work 100 hour weeks on the road for months on end, fueled by youth, whiskey, and copious quantities of Adderall. I knew I had to get out and change my life or I was going to die. No human being works themselves to death behind a computer screen and telephone without the aid of drugs to do it. It's not possible. Physiologically, it's not possible unless obesity were to get you.

In a coal mine circa 1929, a rice paddy in Vietnam circa 1969, a LeBron James Chinese sweat shop circa 2024? Sure. You could work yourself to death, but you're not dying from being behind a computer in the year 2024 unless you are pushing your body to the absolute limit with sleep, and that requires drugs to get to that point.

Just say no to shitty employers. And drugs. Especially from doctors.