> In general, legislation is a terrible solution where simple personal responsibility, team culture, and "voting with your feet" work best. The entirety of the

> In general, legislation is a terrible solution where simple personal responsibility, team culture, and "voting with your feet" work best. The entirety of the labor rights movements was won by over by unionization, strikes, threats of violence and legal activism. If "voting with your feet" was the solution we'd still be working 12-hour days. For a more current example, we'd have on-calls being paid at least time-and-a-half for every hour you're available. > Some of the closest bonds I've built with other engineers happened at 5AM on a Monday morning because we need to debug a server failure live in prod. All hands on deck! Raise the hacker flag and pass out the RedBull! Tallyho! That's great bro. That's how I had my first outbreak of an autoimmune disease and years of insomnia and PTSD whenever my phone vibrated from years of being on-call from completely preventable causes.