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i honestly wonder how you become so morally bankrupt and empty inside that you design these sort of worker tracking tools. killing people in a war somehow seems more benign, or more naturalistic than slowly whittling down people's will to live by not giving them bathroom breaks in order to save someone else a microscopic amount of money
As someone who has worked for investment banks, it's incremental and everyone is either focused on some small aspect that is "not so bad", or so above and detached that it is not real to them. The individuals are people who are thinking, feeling, but the system is a machine that is most definitely not.
The top level though, the people who have insight into how this works, and power to change it and lose a miniscule amount of money, now those are the scum of the earth. Just don't blame the worker.
Don't be so quick to count out middle managers. These are the people who are tracking the results and metrics, sanitizing reports, and saying and doing whatever they need to cover their own ass over the employees they're responsible for.
They hear there's a monitoring solution that increases productivity, they deploy it no matter what effect it has on the workers, and then the only word they feed back up the chain is how great everything is going.
I think the issue is also that they make money by doing that, so the system is rewarding them for it, hard to think you're doing wrong when you receive continuous rewards that allow you to live better than most people. A nice city apartment for you and your loved ones tends to make you forget about those little work ethical issues.