The whole mentality of 996 goes back to the time when most of the jobs were manufacturing jobs. If you are a garments factory whats the simplest way to increase

The whole mentality of 996 goes back to the time when most of the jobs were manufacturing jobs. If you are a garments factory whats the simplest way to increase throughput? Well, make your workers work harder. That doesn’t really work except for the lowest quality tier, because tired workers make mistakes, and mistakes cost time. Automate more to remove the human factor, and the remaining people need to be more focused, not less. There is a sort of maximum amount of net useful work you can get out of a person, taking into account slacking off and correcting for errors, and for most people that is not working 996.