Depends what you define as “a spine”

I totally agree. Though, I think I would say that it’s less that legislation is missing time and more that since the neoliberal revolution, workers’ organisations (unions, parties, etc) have been so systematically either infiltrated or dismantled, there is no avenue for workers to put pressure on representatives to do this. Most governments are, in one way or another, bought by oligarchs.

Saying all that, it is good to see the resurgence of unions over the last 10 years. Though I question the radicalism and their grasp of the task at hand of many of them.

I would think any serious person worth their salt would take a luddite (by that I mean the values of the original bunch, not what the colloquialism has become) position and say that technology is as good as its implementation. If the technology makes it easier for people to do more in less time, thereby meaning that people can go do the fun stuff they enjoy doing, then absolutely. If, however, it’s implemented to drive down wages and therefore living standards, then it is not an advancement that we should seek to implement.

Saying the left is techno-pessimistic is, in my opinion, lazy.