Now the top management of the brain-like company and officials from the relevant government departments are sitting in the conference room, and outside are the striking administrators. Outside the glass window of the conference room, there are people suspended every ten meters in the four-kilometer space of the virtual world.

At present, both sides are very calm, but everyone in the brain-like company knows that the permission management in the brain-like body is actually very lax. Just like in the real world, whether it is a high-level executive, a regular researcher, or an administrator from the outside, their permissions in the virtual world are the same - the so-called "permission" is the degree of integration between consciousness and brain-like body, determined by the type of interface, and has nothing to do with the position status.

This means that it's easy for admins to do anything drastic. The laws of physics in the brain-like body are themselves man-made, and the outer walls of the brain-like company headquarters are nothing more than a pile of data to the administrators who are above the "rules".

In this case, if the top management of the brain-like company wants to suppress the administrator strike, the only feasible way is to temporarily shut down the brain-like company. And the sudden shutdown of the brain-like body for even a few minutes will bring them hundreds of millions of economic losses, and the impact on the free market of China and Russia will be quite serious. Therefore, not only did the top management of the brain-like company dare not talk to the administrators, but the government officials present also took a soft attitude towards this illegal strike.

At this time, Qi Min realized with some surprise that in the real world, when the resistance of grassroots workers no longer posed a threat to the state apparatus, the strike of the administrators in the brain-like body made both capital and the government powerless.

"Teacher Zhou, what are their demands?" Qi Min asked Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan.

"Now the people in the management department are negotiating with them." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said, "But in general, it is just a request for brain-like companies to stop using the application of monitoring assistants, and there are also common demands such as reducing working hours and raising salaries." ”

It's easy to talk about reducing working hours and raising salaries, but disabling the monitoring assistant is too broad: "The monitoring assistant is mainly designed to keep the researchers' consciousness safe, and it has little to do with the administrator. ”

"But I also have to say that in fact, it is a bit impersonal to require administrators to turn on the monitoring assistant when they work." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said this to the administrator.

For researchers in the R&D department, the monitoring assistant is like a vital signs detection system for consciousness, which is conducive to ensuring the safety of consciousness. However, the work intensity of the administrator is not so great, and there is no need for special security guarantees, so it seems that the monitoring role of the monitoring assistant is very obvious. In addition, the implementation of monitoring assistants by the top management of brain-like companies has brought natural antipathy to the administrator group, and it is not surprising that there is such a resistance to monitoring assistants.

At this time, the official of the Labor Bureau interjected: "Mr. Qi, this monitoring assistant that the administrator resisted was developed by your R&D department, right?" ”

Qi Min is a little inexplicable, all the projects of the brain-like company are developed by the R&D department in principle, including the monitoring assistant. It is not unreasonable for the administrator to scold "the R&D department is a dog", but the scope of this is too large. Moreover, the R&D department did not develop the monitoring assistant to monitor the employees, and then what the senior management department did with it was not up to those researchers to decide.

"The monitoring assistant is developed by the R&D department, in the R&D department it is to monitor the status of researchers, and the monitoring administrator is responsible for the management department." Qi Min just stated this fact.

"We also know that this has nothing to do with the R&D department, but now the strike administrator is asking the R&D department to give an explanation." "The problem was solved by deactivating the monitoring assistant and the R&D department promising not to develop any tools to monitor employees' brain activity," an official from the labor bureau said. ”

Qi Min felt that the lack of a monitoring assistant was not a big problem. Researchers in R&D can voluntarily use smart monitoring tools, but that's for their own safety, and the administrator's refusal to do so doesn't matter to her. However, Qi Min is not so two, she still understands that the reason why the high-level colleagues in the management department use the monitoring assistant to monitor the administrator also has its own logic. What is beneficial to the managers of capital is not necessarily beneficial to ordinary workers, but in fact it is not necessarily unfavorable to ordinary workers, and the relationship between managers and workers is not a simple binary antagonism.

But now that the head of the management department has gone to negotiate with the outside administrator representatives, Qi Min has to say a good word for her colleagues: "The monitoring assistant is not just for monitoring the administrator. You know the Taylor system at the beginning of the 20th century, right? Although scientific management is a more serious alienation of grassroots workers, it is also the basis for maintaining the stable and effective operation of the department. The management department of the brain-like company is responsible for the stability of the entire brain-like world, and quantitative labor is probably also to respond to the needs of the market. ”

By saying this, she offended both sides. But no one can say what's wrong with this, the use of intelligent monitoring tools to monitor administrators is an extension of Taylor's system for non-productive industries, and this alienation is also a necessary process for the development of the management department.

Brain-like bodies have only been commercialized for three years, and the number of new users is growing exponentially each year, and will soon cover one-tenth of the country's population — don't think it's a small percentage, even eight years ago, only about 300 million people in China could access the Internet every day. As a self-contained virtual world, brain-like bodies have invested very high costs to manage such a large user base. This quarter, the number of employees in the management department of the brain-like company has exceeded that of the R&D department, which is the production department. However, even so, the "power" of the management department is still slightly insufficient. On the one hand, the management department needs more administrators, and on the other hand, the lowering of the application threshold in order to expand the recruitment process also makes the work of administrators need to be standardized and unified - both quantity and quality are obviously issues that need to be considered.

This may be the dilemma of capital after it has achieved a certain level, but the fundamental reason is the contradiction between the profit-seeking expansion of capital and socialization. Obviously, the management of the brain-like world has been left far behind by the speed of expansion, and the contradictions caused by the uneven development have been transformed into the pressure of administrators, which erupted at this time.

"You mean, you can't compromise on the admins when it comes to surveillance?" An official from the National Development and Reform Commission asked.

Qi Min looked at Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan, who coughed lightly and then said calmly: "The key to the problem is not necessarily the monitoring assistant, you know that technological progress is impossible to stop." Our management department did mishandle the situation, with salary increases and reduced working hours, as well as compensation for the family of the administrator who died suddenly, and there was a lot of room for discussion. ”

This is a euphemism to say that the monitoring assistant cannot be deactivated. As the CTO, Qi Min is actually not very clear about the affairs of the management department, but since Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said so, it shows that the quantitative management work based on the monitoring assistant is actually part of the development strategy of the brain-like company.

It is possible that the contradictions between labor and management will become more and more serious in the future. After the technological dividends brought by the creation of the virtual world at the beginning of the ebb and flow, what has happened in countless capitalist economies will also happen in brain-like companies.