Reading this article made me really sad and pensive. This is slavery. “It’s like when they whip animals. But this is a mental whip.”. We see lots of articles on HN, on how AI is going to take over, reading this article it felt like this is the first step towards that. Of course in those (overtly AI) articles we discuss a super-human entity suddenly taking over humans. But over here as well a significant portion of the workforce, is enslaved, by a software, built by Kronos like companies, so it can be a first step.<p>I see the word &#x27;Union&#x27; mentioned a lot of time, even in the comments to this article on HN. I think that is a bit regressive and unmatching response. What we need perhaps is a counter-culture software, may be titled worker dignity, worker freedom, or something. Which can even start in a trivial (not so overt conquering the world form). May be a small step to make physical workers feel in control of their lives. Could just start by letting them keep a record of their work life. Perhaps their productivity metric of income-generated&#x2F;hours-put. Provide them with competing metrics of brands of which offers a better average metric for a worker. etc.