They're going to have to try a lot harder than $1 for 50 days worth of reading, in a world where any time taken off from work is a risk.

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ValentineC 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> They're going to have to try a lot harder than $1 for 50 days worth of reading, in a world where any time taken off from work is a risk.

If the "get paid to walk" programmes [1][2] were an inspiration for this, it's mostly retirees and students that will do and try to game this [3].

[1] https://www.healthhub.sg/programmes/healthyliving

[2] (RIP) https://www.hpb.gov.sg/healthy-living/our-lumihealth-journey...

[3] https://sgunfitrunners.blogspot.com/2016/04/5-despicable-way...

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Insanity 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What’s the risk? Not familiar enough with Singapore to judge that.

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qurren 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Not Singapore specifically but in today's AI/tech world if you're not constantly working you're on the firing line.

I'm in the Bay Area. It's Sunday morning and I'm working becasue I still need to pay for food, rent, and enormous medical bills and don't want to get fired, and I got yelled at by my director this morning on Slack because I'm not delivering fast enough despite squashing 12 months' worth of work into 4.

I don't have time for books. Finding time for even exercise is hard.

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Insanity 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This sounds like mostly a USA problem and not something that extrapolates well to other countries. I had a suspicion it’d come from a US point of view lol.

EDIT: while more common in the US, if you are actually regularly working weekends, look for a better job. In my part of FAANG I rarely have to work weekends, although the occasional crunch time can happen.

	▲	qurren 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've worked in Singapore before. It's not a chill work culture there either. In fact it's about the same.