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·il y a 4 ans·discuss
It's completely doable, it just takes some multi-government commitment.

A fleet of solar sails would be the cheapest and fastest, for example, it can accomplish this with great redundancy, whilst being steerable and powered using the very sun they'll block.

The size of the sails would have to be huge, so a very interesting engineering problem to be solved.
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·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Their main page ( www.nordicforestfoods.com ) is up, bit the blog itself ist caput.
fifi_conner
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Literally same experience. So sorry, it sucks.
fifi_conner
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Bloomberg wagging it's finger at the workers of the world, such surprise.

"Lie Flat" is a totally understandable phenomena in China, where tech (and other) companies not only want to gain an advantage on the backs of employees working 80+ hour weeks, but also want to skirt laws prohibiting overtime, and the government closes their eyes, Xi forbid productivity goes down.

Forcing employees to do long hours without pay has it's consequences, and no sensible employee will go on doing this, especially in the era of social media, even when Chinese state censors constantly fight to hide "Lay Flat" posts, and Chinese denizens constantly finds new ways to communicate their fatigue to their peers.

Some companies in China are changing and are being sensitive to the needs of their employees, but examples are few and apart, for now.

In the States, companies have similar issues, trying to make it in a competitive market, by forcing productivity through luring employees with stock options, salaries, amenities and so on, but it's both very transparent that they don't give a damn about burnout, and also very obvious that they have no plans to keep you around after your stock options mature.

It's ok to take a break, start a new career, go somewhere where greedy corporate overlords cannot reach you and you can live like a king on very little money.

Bloomberg can shout all they want at the people fed up with long hours, overtime, on-call and so on, but the gig is up, and this whole generation of people looking out from their gilded cages are learning that it's not always worth it.