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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
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People also produce much more because technology allows it

Think about it, people do stuff way faster than 40-50 years ago when idk, excel wasn’t a thing. Some people here probably have done accounting without it, for instance. I’m pretty sure it became easier and way faster with computers.

Then they make you work even more just because they can, to Squeeze even more production value, despite that
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My own stupid company has demonstrated that to no end. Just about 10 years ago a typical day looked like 4 or 5 tasks in 12 hours and now we're "lucky" to do less than 8 although I've had plenty of terrible days doing 11 or some shit. 

And they'll look at industry standard productivity measures, the ideal amount of work to balance productivity and see that we're way above the borderline abusive ratio. And they throw their hands up and think they just discovered a free money glitch that certainly no other company has thought of, Instead of striving for a more manageable ratio.