Know this without ambiguity, it will never be enough for them. The point is to always push you to broken and then replace you without remorse.

Haha, that's not how it works. One of my teachers used to say "Computers made our jobs easy but then they started to give more work to us."

Increased productivity from better tooling has never equated to less working time. Increased productivity from better tooling always results in more working time, because now you can "produce more". The only exception is farm stuff for small producers. The big land owners can now use more land thanks to better tools.

Oh they meant less work for them. Not for us peons, that would be silly.

It is not the normal maintenance of the labour-power which is to determine the limits of the working-day; it is the greatest possible daily expenditure of labour-power, no matter how diseased, compulsory, and painful it may be, which is to determine the limits of the labourers’ period of repose. Capital cares nothing for the length of life of labour-power. All that concerns it is simply and solely the maximum of labour-power, that can be rendered fluent in a working-day.

Kar Marx, Capital, vol 1, chapter 10, section 5

It takes a lot of man hours to achieve the AI productivity boost the CEO told us we’re getting.

Tech leaders bros

I don't believe for one second that tech leaders have never heard of the lump of labour fallacy

Tbh I've never met someone who claims they work north of 70hpw who actually does.

This just made me realize that after we fix our tax structure to tax capital gains and land more than labor we need to change the way the labor tax rate works. We shouldn't be taxing on total income in my opinion, we should be taxing a rate off of your average hourly income.

So if you work in a factory and make $30 an hour and work 10 hrs overtime a week at 1.5 an hour that's 85,800, or $33 an hour. But if you work salaried for 100k and work 65 hours a week you make $29.58 an hour. The salaried in this example should be taxed less than the hourly. I am not sure what the new rates would look like, but both the hourly and salaried person would have a lower effective tax obligation after we fixed the first two things.

Anyone who isn't clearly working 2 physical jobs claiming to do 90h is a liar 99.9+% of the time.

This is also 2 discreet issues. I'm tired of this propaganda boss.

In my current project Copilot saved extreme amounts of work for knowledge transfer session planning and creating documentation, technical role description, interview questions for staffing, RAID notices, drafting complex emails, and so on.

Sorry, no one's working 90 hours a week. Can we be less hyperbolic so we can get at the truth?

I've worked like that when I was in my 20's - it can only be done for a short time.

And no corpo wants you to do this, as it's counterproductive.

Sounds like a bunch of senior managers who are paid a lot making shit up for their own reasons.

There are plenty of other, truthful reasons to dislike these companies. Let's not give them lies to hide behind.