Certainly an interesting point.

In r/sysadmin there's a tongue in cheek comment of 'quitting IT to become a goat farmer'

I actually personally place it really at 1 place. https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...

The Ontario government(where I live) passed laws before the Y2K hoax removing:

The right not to be forced to work 20 hour days. The right not to be called back into work 2 hours after a 20 hour day. The right to get 2 days off per week, they force you to work 7 days a week. The right to a lunch or breaks. The right to be paid overtime pay if you work alot.

I've had 3 employers now that required me to work ~12-18 hour days everyday, no lunch, no breaks. At least I did get overtime; but I'd have to justify the overtime bigtime.

Y2K was not a hoax! It was the rare case of all the rhetoric making people do the necessary planning work.

Plus, a problem was found anyway in NASA data (somewhere around 2006, I think) that was caused by Y2K; it just took a long time for someone to find it.