Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule
nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Say no to 72 hour work weeks. Working more hours does not increase quality of work or even quantity, but is does increase stress and suicide rates. Stop accepting it’s OK to be ground into dust just so you can barely earn a living. Tell those CEO’s to take their jobs and shove it, especially in Sililcon Valley. That place is no longer the pinnacle of technological innovation it was in the late 90’s. It’s been nothing but a guilded shithole bastion for technocrats.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Honestly even in the late 90s it was going down. I don’t think DEC or Amiga or something else cool you can remember have anything to do with the Silicon Valley.
After the original Intel and other hardware things fame, it’s a place that mostly collected parasites living off the dotcom bubble and then profanation and oligopolization of tech. The least important part - the companies making suddenly popular user applications and websites. Their main effect was negative - they reduced diversity, competition and redundancy in that.
In any case … “AI startups”.
I’m so morally prepared to dance when that bubble finally bursts. A lot of today’s rattling of sabers depends on the promise of AI workers, AI drones, AI everything so that a crime would involve only a few real humans.