Tech ~~leaders~~ bros

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.

As with all inventions, the 40 hour workweek lie remains while 60+ hour weeks continue. I do more work, get paid the same, and am expected to work even harder. The machine must grow

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.

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

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."

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

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

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.

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