Seth Fiegeman

in the morning until 9 p.m.

six days a week, which is extremely long hours.

The World Health Organization defines overwork as working more than 55 hours.

Now, in China, they work even harder than in the United States.

It's about 49 hours on average for full-time workers compared with 45 in the United States.

In the tech industry, it's far beyond those kinds of hours.

At Xiaomi, the workers, an independent survey showed that they were working 11 and a half hours a day.

So you're talking about almost 60 hours a week that they were working.

And Wang seemed to be one of the workers who was going even beyond that at this point.

Of course, there's a lot at stake here.

They're competing for leadership in AI, in chips, in electric vehicles, et cetera.

And there's a lot of money at stake.

When you look at the most valuable, the wealthiest people in the world, they're all tech entrepreneurs, led by Elon Musk, of course.

But you've got Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos in there, too.

There's a lot of money at stake.

There's also geopolitical advantage.

And Xiaomi was pushing very hard to make this pivot into electric vehicles.

I think I've done enough.

You certainly ask interesting questions.

It's quite interesting.