Interestingly, software engineers are usually considered exempt in the US, meaning they can be required to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay if employers choose to.

Unless you're imagining congress do something. I want to shoot fireballs from my fingers, but unfortunately we don't live in a world of magic.

You can lobby Congress to do things, even better you can volunteer at campaigns and try to elect people to Congress that want to do these things.

Acting like we are helpless and the future is determined is straight up loser talk while also not being historically accurate in the slightest.

You should go read about people starting wildcat strikes while working in literal company towns. There is tremendous power when we organize together, a power so great the elites have spent almost a 100 years trying to destroy the fruits of their success.