In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot'

Technologists keep saying they don’t need a union while taking beatings from management, boards, and shareholders through round after round of layoffs, loss of flexible work arrangements, offshoring, using visa workers to disadvantage domestic workers, etc. One day they’ll change their mind? Or they’ll just keep complaining while accepting what they get.

Is organizing so much worse than being held hostage? “You can go elsewhere.” Really? Because it looks like the labor market is frozen because employers are desperate to get control back from workers, even if they’re overworking those left to make their hand look better than it is for as long as they can until they have no choice but to hire again.

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/

Because employees are just numbers and a business is about optimizing the numbers. Meanwhile what we're getting as a civilization is faster and faster pace of living life in general. Faster information consumption, faster jobs, faster food, faster communication, faster spending, faster startups, etc. etc.

So we're basically sacrificing human connection, healthy communities, for a faster paced life style that is dominated by technology... for the purpose of building more technology. It's insane but I wonder if it's inevitable, and I wonder if this is what the Bible is really about and whether that has been the point of religion all this time (and it has lost its way since the Enlightenment).