To be fair, he's not hiding his name or anything, so he's upholding his end of the non-anonymity part.

Exactly, but people just love to parrot it. It'd be like taking banking hours as the norm here.

> Bob Diamond on brutal working hours for junior bankers: ‘I’d do it again in a nanosecond’ [1]

[1] https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/bob-diamond-on-brutal-work...

Even on this very forum you people will consistently brag that they only work a couple hours a week at their 500k job.

Not even just this forum, there have been plenty of articles about data of varying quality showing that vanishingly few people actually work a full 8 hour day and/or are capable of actually sustaining heavy thought for that long anyway!

If you can generate enough value in 2 hours to justify 500k a year then that's fine.

When was long term memory ever a thing for people. People have completely forgotten about invading an entire country finding no WMDs and the recent Afghanistan debacle.

The guy who did that just remembered and Freudian slip told everyone in a speech.