Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them

• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Generally the actual term used is technocrat.

  People opposed to them would generally say they get focused on the end result and neglect the human aspect.

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  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This doesn’t seem different than any other business dude exhorting his employees to do an extra grind for “the company mission” when it’s really just for his ego and profits. Grind culture exists in law, finance, sales, etc. Anywhere that employees are not paid overtime for overworking (mostly, hourly plus commission jobs might have a low base rate and not care about the extra overtime expense).

    Techies are particularly vulnerable to it as they’re usually younger salaried employees who aren’t as apt about demanding a personal upside if they’re asked to sacrifice their personal lives for the company’s benefit.

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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Where did you hear that? Technocracy means rule by specialists and technical experts. For example, in a technocracy, career bureaucrats aren’t in charge of ecological policy.

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can have a technocrat without a technocracy.

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      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Is this guy called a technocrat because he actually wants his engineers to rule?

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  this almost always an MBA, buzzword(you arnt working , if you are not busy)

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