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from the this-is-just-what-our-corporate-overlords-want-us-to-think dept.
You’d think striking it suddenly rich would be the ultimate ticket to freedom. Without money worries, the world would be your oyster. Perhaps you’d champion a worthy cause, or indulge a sporting passion, but work? Surely not. However, remaining gainfully employed after sudden wealth is more common than you’d think. After all, there are numerous high-profile billionaires who haven’t called it quits despite possessing the luxury to retire, including some of the world’s top chief executives, such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
But it turns out, the suddenly rich who aren’t running companies are also loathe to quit, even though they have plenty of money. That could be, in part, because the link between salary and job satisfaction is very weak.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:52PM
In engineering, you de-rate things as much as 50% so that they will work reliably for a long time.
In that case, maybe 200% is the real maximum. However, at that power lever, you will get premature wear and possible failure.
In the case of expecting workers to give 200%, maybe they are expected to exceed safe working loads, or sprint from station to stain fast enough that they risk injury.
As you said, worker are not robots.